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Surely you're not implying that population reduction due to a lower birth-rate is as traumatic as living through the Black Death, just because the GP unfortunat
by chuckee 5y ago
Surely you're not implying that population reduction due to a lower birth-rate is as traumatic as living through the Black Death, just because the GP unfortunately used it as an example?
As for Malthusianism - it seems to me the GP is correct in pointing out ecological stress is proportional to human population size, and that the ecosystem is in crisis. Were you hoping we would overlook this fact by calling it "Malthusianism"?
Rarely have I seen so many dishonest arguments compressed into so few words.
- arvinsim 5y ago> As for Malthusianism - it seems to me the GP is correct in pointing out ecological stress is proportional to human population size, and that the ecosystem is in crisis. Population size? No, the problem is human greed and corruption.
- chuckee 5y agoI'm not saying those aren't a problem. I'm saying that ecological stress is proportional to human population size. Are you claiming we'd have the same ecological problems, of the same severity, if the human population were 1/10th its size? The claim is so simple and obvious I'm sure you misunderstood it deliberately.
- ikerdanzel 5y agoGreed isn't a bad thing. You have iPad today can be purely ascribe to pure undiluted greed. As for corruption, USA and China is rifed with it. I doubt you can convince any lefties or, millenials to give up today and live in those countries 200 years ago. Take Chinese greatest dynasties Hans and Tang. Those times, people lived like shit compare Chinese commoners these days. Of course history was written by the rich back then, and they seems to have good life. But compare to todays rich? They also live shitly.