Relevant: https://toe.prx.org/2015/06/instas…

Every Giz-commenter is suddenly an expert in public policy and political theory now; how’d you all get so smart so fast?

That is absolutely not the definition.

I figured I’d see comments that saw eeeeevil big government behind this. It’s not a violation of anybody’s freedom to provide information; it’s sensible public policy. So. You know. Chill.

Imagine a human-sized crow making this song... Oh, the controversy it would create!

But the relationship between population and resource consumption calls for a more nuanced approach than focusing on the number of human bodies. Instead, there needs to be more much attention paid to resource usage - like that the US, which claims 4% of the world’s population, uses 25% of the world’s energy output.

I did this in April in Las Vegas. Stuck a 20 between my CC and license. I was upgraded to a corner suite and had a bottle of wine waiting for me when I got up there. Neither of us said a word about the cash. My suspicion is that this is a Vegas norm and probably would not work well in other places.

Thank you for unwringing your hands long enough to copy and paste that super-dope burn.

Nobody’s mad you disagree. People seem to feel sorry for you because you’re a bootlicking coward.

Which experts are those?

Well, try better to see it, then.

Well that’s entirely wrong.

“I am a liberal...”

Counterpoint: The hyperexploitation of resources resulting in ecological crises *is* “capitalism do[ing] its thing.”

I already had proof you thought childishly. You didn’t have to reconfirm.

Bad/fraudulent loans are written off literally all the time. I'm sorry you can't remember that, or how to do some basic research.

What childish reasoning. That’s as if you had your house burgled and got upset that your neighbor’s house didn't.

It seems the crux here is that there’s a conflation of solid personal financial advice, and the superweird moral preening about Other Peoples’ Lives. People who deploy the second to address the first are not at all helpful.

He’s wrong and won’t apologize for it because it’s not a scientific endeavor Ehrlich is on, but rather an ideological crusade of ecological racism, or as Betsy Hartmann calls, “the greening of hate.” Her whole body of scholarship is worthwhile, but here’s a good start: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dpu-projects/2…

A Rothbardian Libertarian resorting to identitarianism? Well, good to see you folks are still entirely inconsistent about, oh, everything.