"Homo sapiens will become extinct, perhaps within 100 years”. What good scientific grounds are there for that prediction? None. It is about a reliable as the Maya prediction that the world would end on 21 December 2012.
You can’t predict such large effects accurately for human populations across such a large interval of time. Actually, basic UN population projections have been known to go significantly wrong even for a ten-year interval, nevermind the dire predictions of Malthus. Then what is the function of this arbitrary, fake ideology? It is to habituate people into thinking that they cannot expect much of life, and that they should accept capitalist austerity. Thus, the eco-leftists are in league with the elite’s austerity project, providing it with an extra rationale. Does that mean we shouldn’t be concerned about ecological problems affecting everybody? Of course not. But we should avoid the hippy-yippie greeny-lefties, because all they really offer is a mystical Gaia pseudoscience, a lot of gloom and doom, and panic mongering. In addition, they distract attention from the real problems there are now, and what we can do about them. You can’t do anything about things that will happen in a hundred years, but focusing on that lets you off the hook in the present. J.
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