There’s a lot here to unpack, and it conflates things that don’t really make sense to conflate. Like, Americans using too many resources being a wealth issue is circular because wealth means resources. Maybe to make the perspective of others more clear, we’re saying that this zero-sum understanding of resource managment fails to account that resources can be recycled, and that their recycling is economically stimulating because it’s a form of resource capture. Manage the resources as necessary for the global population (with slack of course for emergencies) and keeping them on a closed loop. It’s possible, but is not an exploitive practice so its mechanisms arent easily exploitable. That’s the real issue. Humans only seem to gather and work together when there’s a possibility that any one of them can become a god king and get visits to whatever the modern Epstein Island is.

You’re arguing that progress requires death. We’re arguing that it requires effort and intentionality.

Controversial, but I dont think overpopulation is the problem folks think it is. More hands can mean more trees planted and more wind turbines built as much as it means oil refineries. Overpopulation is only an issue if you’re coasting off shared resources.

I’ll be raising my kids on The Anarchist’s Cook Book for this reason.

Weak like LITTLE BABY MEN, “whhaaaa, whhhaaaa”