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Ehrlich's theories is intuitive and intuitive hypotheses often sound true without being so. It actually requires scientific education to think critically and lo
by glitchc 3y ago
Ehrlich's theories is intuitive and intuitive hypotheses often sound true without being so. It actually requires scientific education to think critically and logically about a hypothesis to judge its veracity. Physics, after all, is replete with non-intuitive explanations of physical phenomena.
> Of course today the new hotness is to panic over underpopulation and demographic collapse. That's got a huge undercurrent of racism too. Desirable countries can easily compensate for any concerns over population decline by importing population, but the depopulation zealots seem to freak out even more over that. We can't just let people immigrate... because... they never quite seem to finish the sentence but you know the reason.
Agreed. Brexit is the first step in an anti-immigration wave that's poised to all sweep Western countries over the next decade.