Techbros of the singularity/longtermist/effective altruist stripes have always thought that "slowing population growth" is a viable path out of climate crisis. And the answer to "which populations?" is always exactly who you'd think because they are all just fucking swimming in eugenicist bullshit.
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn
For decades I’ve seen sci-fi writers do variations on the ‘wealthiest 1% conspire to reduce the rest of the population to save Earth for themselves’ & I think that one is happening now?
(first I read it was @bruces.bsky.social’s underrated HEAVY WEATHER 1994)
(first I read it was @bruces.bsky.social’s underrated HEAVY WEATHER 1994)
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