Too Many People?
21st October 2009
Jerry Pournelle takes a look.
Population growth: there is now a scheme to persuade people for not having kids by giving them a carbon credit. Like all population limiting schemes, this one seems designed to breed those who pay attention to population growth arguments out of the human race.
We’re doing well at convincing some Western cultures to commit suicide, as predicted by James Burnham in Suicide of the West. Burnham was fond of saying that Liberalism is a philosophy of consolation for the West as it commits suicide. That was thought to be an obsolete observation after the end of the Seventy Years War; perhaps it is not so irrelevant as some thought.