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> the most destructive person to have ever lived I'm not sure if we can that easily pin the responsibility on a single person and not on every single one who s
by Algent 5y ago
> the most destructive person to have ever lived
I'm not sure if we can that easily pin the responsibility on a single person and not on every single one who still continue to go for PoW while knowing how destructive it is.
- sokoloff 5y agoThere's a reasonable argument that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr was a contender for that title previously.
- ninju 5y agoInventor of both * Leaded Gasoline * Freon Ouch!
- papreclip 5y agoI would say https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Haber https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Haber blows him out of the water >Haber is also considered the "father of chemical warfare" for his years of pioneering work developing and weaponizing chlorine and other poisonous gases during World War I, especially his actions during the Second Battle of Ypres. but more importantly, >Nearly 50% of the nitrogen found in human tissues originated from the Haber–Bosch process. Thus, the Haber process serves as the "detonator of the population explosion", enabling the global population to increase from 1.6 billion in 1900 to 7.7 billion by November 2018 Anything past 1.6B is overpopulation, and is driving the holocene extinction, global warming, pollution, etc... all of our big problems scale with population, and removing this natural limitation on our food supply has allowed us to blow the suspension out on all of them
- zaptrem 5y agoWhat is a “natural limitation” of food? Should we get rid of mechanized farming, genetically enhanced plant varieties, modern logistics, and everything else that makes the modern world so spectacular and quality of life so high for billions of people as well? The solutions for the future will be ones that improve technology to allow more to be produced more efficiently. We should look to the future, not “return to monke”.