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Three guesses as to where these scientists think “population control” efforts ought to be concentrated https://twitter.com/business/status/1200078223037673472">https://twitter.com/business/...
Wild to spend the afternoon reading about British “management” of famines in India from 1876-1902 that, informed by Malthusianism and social Darwinism, killed somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 million people... then to log on and see this
Just a few excerpts
Anyway be careful out there fellow scientists, as ecofascism becomes increasingly de rigeur in the face of mounting global catastrophe a lot of you are going to fall into passively advocating for it unless you’re morally scrupulous
I realize the tone of this tweet is scolding and unchill but I decidedly do not feel chill about stuff like this
One more
And if you’re thinking of replying to me to tell me that the only mention of population control in the paper is proposed “contraception and education” for women and girls: don’t bother! I know! Thanks!
As we all know, contraception and reproductive education are completely neutral ideas that have never been and in fact could never be used for coercive or violent or colonialist ends
