On Human Overpopulation
A recurring theme among a number of widely divergent political and environmental movements is that of human overpopulation. Often, the claim that there are too many humans has conspicuous racist overtones and is associated with ecofascism, but claims of overpopulation are also made by people with very different political ideas. Much of the popular overpopulation discourse appears to be quite ignorant about what โoverpopulationโ even means, however, and about what it might imply, so I thought it might be useful to write a few words about this. What even is โoverpopulationโ? โOverpopulationโ is a relative term โ it means that...
(Not) Too Late for What?
Some people seem to believe that it is too late to fight climate change. Others seem to believe that this kind of fatalism is as dangerous as climate change denialism (because both effectively advocate not doing anything). Itโs hardly a secret that Iโm rather pessimistic about climate change and its effects โ just have a look at what Iโve written about the topic before โ but that doesnโt mean that I think that it is โtoo lateโ to fight climate change. Rather, I think that the notion of it being โtoo lateโ (or not) in this context is nonsensical. The...