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And I guess totalism would also imply we should have more children, in contradiction to the idea that we should have fewer to protect the environment.
This is mostly what I was referring to. Matt Yglesias has often said that he gets a lot of pushback against his One Billion Americans book from leftists who implictly have some sort of prior against both population and economic growth.
Also, as Michael says below, I think they (like most people who aren’t moral philosophers) just don’t really have coherent population ethics.
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This is mostly what I was referring to. Matt Yglesias has often said that he gets a lot of pushback against his One Billion Americans book from leftists who implictly have some sort of prior against both population and economic growth.
Also, as Michael says below, I think they (like most people who aren’t moral philosophers) just don’t really have coherent population ethics.