“If such a trajectory ends in the near destruction of the human species and the

—“If such a trajectory ends in the near destruction of the human species and the planet, what lessons should the survivors inherit? It seems you’re largely in agreement with many the historical/factual claims of left/feminist scholarship. You simply advocate the power and privilege they despise.”— Skye Stewart

(a) What trajectory? Markets in Everything?

(b) What have the other trajectories achieved? By civilization. Comparatively? What about the difference between the modern age, the middle christian age, and the ancient age? And how did we exit the christian age?

(c) Power and privilege? You mean, the power to prevent parasitism and require trade? The Power to PREVENT over-reproduction?

I don’t disagree with marxists or the feminists on fact so much as value and institutions. As far as I can tell it’s just an r/k argument over dysgenic expansion and regression or eugenic expansion and progress.

Certainly at present, all challenges to the human race are the product of over-reproduction of the sub 100’s.

I mean, it’s roughly mathematical: what population can consume continued increasing percentages of the energy capacity of the planet (using say, solar terms)?

Or said differently, how can we keep increasing individual consumption of energy while preserving the carrying capacity of the planet – especially given that we are in a ‘quiet period’ of astro-geological activity – and at what point do we reach equilibration (limits).

I’ll suggest that I’m not the first person to think this through, and that the number of that population is a lot closer to one billion than it is to ten billion – a fact that will become obvious with the next economic-generational cycle.

So whose strategy is more likely to end the world: the r-strategy of dysgenic reproduction of the k-strategy of eugenic reproduction? What problems do we currently face that are not problems of overpopulation? Why should we invest energy in more bodies (greater consumption) than in fewer bodies and greater innovation and production?

There is only one extant problem facing man: the ratio of rates of population to rates of depletion of energy reserves.