Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

Business as usual is plummeting birth rates in high-education hubs, an adamant aesthetic-based dismissal of key technologies to reverse the most concerning of the trends you point at, and a broad shift toward an agrarian sensibility that is *less* sustainable at a *lower* pop.

go find someone engaging in "aesthetic-based dismissal of key technologies to reverse the most concerning of the trends." we should dump asstons of money into all kinds of tech. But we also shouldn't have blind faith that it'll succeed & use it as justification for exp. growth

A population implosion in the parts of the world with functional tech hubs would decimate the funding available for this tech & the projects available to fund. There is no non-migratory growth here, and your arguments aren't super persuasive to Niger, Somalia, the Congo.

Tell yourself a voluntary fertility decline is some kind of solution, but we already have that in the richer parts of the world. Keep talking just to hear yourself, or go look up the countries with the top birth rates & think about how you're going to pitch green hipsterism there

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

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?

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.