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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Make sure to pack the blown-up phytoplankton chart
FWIW, as education access blossoms in these places, the opportunity for new hubs will grow as pop growth there likely slows. See the new models predicting a global pop flatlining, assuming education trends continue unabated. Westerners hand-wringing over 1-2 kids are just silly
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It's all just a distraction. Tell me, why are you freaking out about pop growth in Africa (it's sure not happening *here*!) when the world's consumption capitals can't find the political will to build next-gen nuclear plants or realize the next obvious agricultural revolution?
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I'm not freaking out about pop growth in the g.s. I'm "freaking out" about people like you and the Quillette author pretending as if it's antithetical to human flourishing to want to not have kids. And i'm obviously worried about the other stuff you mention, too.
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Most of the people in the global south contribute negligibly to most of these problems. Westerners are doing the great majority of the damage. That's why it's irresponsible to mock the idea that Westerners should not have kids. That's why it's good our pop. growth has flatlined.
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They contribute negligibly to both the problem and the solution, but this will change as education spreads/regional wealth grows, at which point we can expect similar trends in pop growth (/decline) to emerge. But then we're back to "tech or self-elimination?" There's no hedging.
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