Very timely piece on naive environmental anti-natalism. I myself flirted with this position briefly before being exposed to the positive effects of (economic and particularly population) growth, and modern pro-natal views by:
@tylercowen
@_TamaraWinter
@bryan_caplanhttps://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1124867269794811904 …
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Replying to @TheDecentTech @tylercowen and
Counter to some prominent narratives, population growth has attended an explosion of life- & world-bettering ideas. Life was comparably "nasty, brutish and short" for all but the last ~150 years. The last 50 years saw a population boom that halved *absolute* extreme povertypic.twitter.com/Sm72FUDf4r
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Replying to @webdevMason @TheDecentTech and
it has also attended an explosion of environmental degradation of all kinds and an ongoing mass extinctionpic.twitter.com/HYM68ltq1Z
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Replying to @BoltzmannBody @webdevMason and
(and the numbers in that graph are very out of date -- the situation is far worse now)
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Replying to @BoltzmannBody @TheDecentTech and
I invite you to go into wildlife rehabilitation for a few years and get back to me
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Replying to @webdevMason @TheDecentTech and
I'll stick to atmospheric physics, thanks. What a terrible response, lmao
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Replying to @BoltzmannBody @TheDecentTech and
You do you, cutie pie ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Replying to @webdevMason @TheDecentTech and
just strikes me as strange to uncritically support continued exponential growth despite the knowledge that it's eroding the systems that make human existence possible in the first place.
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Replying to @BoltzmannBody @TheDecentTech and
The nature-as-aesthetic circlejerk is doing no good to anybody. Nuclear & lab meat are actual solutions that don't appease the would-be office hippie with a screensaver of the Amazon. All I'm suggesting is that such people give themselves a tiny, tiny taste of the real thing.
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Replying to @webdevMason @TheDecentTech and
do you genuinely think that being worried about a 40% decline in phytoplankton--which produce half the oxygen we breathe--since 1950 is a "nature-as-aesthetic circlejerk"? One example among many. Nukes & lab meat are obviously necessary. Just as obviously, they're not sufficient.
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I'm sorry, where was that on your chart? If you want to get into the real shit, let's get into the real shit. How many human beings need to die or be sterilized to prevent ecological collapse?
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Replying to @webdevMason @TheDecentTech and
"Slow population growth & consumption to try and avoid mass suffering in the near future and possible extinction" != "murder & sterilize people." It's insane that people who claim to value human life so much ignore that business as usual dooms billions to displacement or death
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Replying to @BoltzmannBody @TheDecentTech and
Go find someone who's defending business as usual.
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