🌎 Are there too many people?
“Over”population fears are misguided, writes Jason Crawford
Hello Freethinkers,
Dystopian visions of the future often imagine a world where competition over limited resources spirals into rapid destruction of the environment and our quality of life. One common theme in these visions is overpopulation. Some argue that our growing global population is an existential threat, or even that humanity is already effectively a "cancer" on our planet and that Earth and human civilization would be better off with far fewer people.
Jason Crawford doesn't buy it. In the latest chapter of his Techno-Humanist Manifesto, Crawford explores the overlooked virtues of a crowded world, making the case for why our “cooperative nature means that not only are humans good, more humans are better.”
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Onward,
Stephen
The overlooked virtues of a crowded world
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// @jasoncrawford on XPeople aren’t just mouths — we’re also minds. People not only consume resources but also create them, and we cannot do that alone. Concerns about overpopulation misunderstand this dynamic, Jason Crawford argues in the latest installment of his new book, the Techno-Humanist Manifesto. The more people there are, and the better connected we are to each other, the greater our ability to specialize, understand the world, and solve each other’s problems.
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