The premise of the article would make more sense in a time before the mass population explosions you mention. Of course, those explosions could not have happene

The premise of the article would make more sense in a time before the mass population explosions you mention. Of course, those explosions could not have happened without the productivity gains from private property and free markets, along with science and other innovations. In some sense most of our very lives are due to the systems the author believes makes us "a planet full of assholes".