Avoiding Crisis Thinking
It's Better than you Think, and it's Worse than you Imagine
Cornucopians Piss me Off
Peak Oil
Can Humans Get their Shit Together?
Overpopulation : Malthus Being Wrong Doesn't Make You Right
As a geoist and an anarchist, I believe that a lot of the inequality and human misery is directly attributable to the state and the way property rights in natural opportunities are handled. However, in both those respective camps I find myself an outlier because I still believe that ecological overshoot is a real and likely existential threats to humanity. Malthus didn't correctly anticipate the discovery of additional power sources, and couldn't see the contributions people like Normal Borlaug made through genetically engineering crops. His thesis about linear versus exponential rates was incorrect. People who were causing misery through privilege were willing to fund him to draw attention away from their misdeeds to lay the blame on something as unsympathetic and unyielding as nature.
That all of those things are true doesn't mean, however, that the concepts of overpopulation and ecological overshoot are incorrect. I find that many in the liberty movement want to declare the concept of overpopulation dead and buried with Malthus. I think I understand why - they feel they must deny it for libertarianism to be tenable. They attack a strawman version of it so they can hold onto their belief that top-down coordinated efforts may not be necessary for the survival of the human race at anything close to a standard of living and population we have now. While I have no love of top-down and state-sponsored systems, I'm not arrogant enough to assert that, because I don't like those types of solutions, they cannot address any problem or that any problem which seemingly could be addressed by them does not exist.
That all of those things are true doesn't mean, however, that the concepts of overpopulation and ecological overshoot are incorrect. I find that many in the liberty movement want to declare the concept of overpopulation dead and buried with Malthus. I think I understand why - they feel they must deny it for libertarianism to be tenable. They attack a strawman version of it so they can hold onto their belief that top-down coordinated efforts may not be necessary for the survival of the human race at anything close to a standard of living and population we have now. While I have no love of top-down and state-sponsored systems, I'm not arrogant enough to assert that, because I don't like those types of solutions, they cannot address any problem or that any problem which seemingly could be addressed by them does not exist.
Technological Unemployment
Constant Growth is Unsustainable
Schadenfreude : Petrodollar Collapse
