Henry Howard🔸 comments on Debate: organisations using Rethink Priorities’ mainline welfare ranges should consider effects on soil nematodes, mites, and springtails, or at least be transparent about their reasons for neglecting them?

[Henry Howard🔸]

I think if you see desertification as good (you seem to be saying it is), you should have very high suspicion that your ethical framework has led you astray somewhere.

[Vasco Grilo🔸]

I think desertification is beneficial because deserts, and xeric shrublands is the biome with the least soil nematodes, mites, and springtails by far, and my best guess is that these have negative lives, such that decreasing their population is good (although I am highly uncertain).