Why only a few million? You’ll have to kill 9 billion people, and to what purpose? I don’t see any reason to think that the current population of humans wouldn’t be infinitely sustainable. We can supply all the energy we need with nuclear and/or solar power, and that will get us all the fresh water we need; and we already have all the arable land that we need. There just isn’t anything else we need.
Re. “You had mentioned concern about there being no statements of existential threat from climate change. Here’s the UN Secretary General’s speech on climate change where he claims that climate change is an existential threat.”
No; I said that when I traced claims of existential threat from climate change back to their source, the trail always led back to the IPCC, and the latest IPCC summary report didn’t mention anything remotely close to an existential threat to humans. This is yet another instance—the only source cited is the IPCC.
I was writing about family planning, Phil, not killing people. if you want to communicate with me, you’ll have to read what I write with more care. I was writing about family planning, and there am concerned about reducing conception, primarily, as opposed to providing, for example, abortion services. If you understand what family planning is, you’ll recognize that it is not genocide.
Why only a few million? You’ll have to kill 9 billion people, and to what purpose? I don’t see any reason to think that the current population of humans wouldn’t be infinitely sustainable. We can supply all the energy we need with nuclear and/or solar power, and that will get us all the fresh water we need; and we already have all the arable land that we need. There just isn’t anything else we need.
Re. “You had mentioned concern about there being no statements of existential threat from climate change. Here’s the UN Secretary General’s speech on climate change where he claims that climate change is an existential threat.”
No; I said that when I traced claims of existential threat from climate change back to their source, the trail always led back to the IPCC, and the latest IPCC summary report didn’t mention anything remotely close to an existential threat to humans. This is yet another instance—the only source cited is the IPCC.
I was writing about family planning, Phil, not killing people. if you want to communicate with me, you’ll have to read what I write with more care. I was writing about family planning, and there am concerned about reducing conception, primarily, as opposed to providing, for example, abortion services. If you understand what family planning is, you’ll recognize that it is not genocide.