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3. This awesome non-profit Population Balance
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 10:19 AM
Friday

Covers these topics far better than I could:
https://www.populationbalance.org/

It’s from what’s called an ecofeminist perspective, but its more sensible than the stuff Ezra Klein etc. are shilling imo.

This is pretty much the best piece I have seen so far on the topic-again it’s an environmentalist perspective, but environmentalists are society’s friends not the enemy whatever economists say. That too economists driving us all into hellscapes with unchecked, deregulated growth (most of which goes into the pockets of billionaires who are trying to destroy social security anyway).
And any immigration Cato/the Koch brothers/ etc approve of would be as heartless as Trumpism. I know from bitter experience how those types of corporatists see all humans.

Immigration should not be a weapon used to force things on people calculating that you can get away with ott stuff with a foreigner.
Aside from everything else, that’s outright inaccurate and insulting. The global south is not a source of timid handmaids eager to participate in rubbishy ai and other social experiments.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/there-are-many-threats-to-humanity.-a-low-birth-rate-isnt-one-of-them

There Are Many Threats to Humanity. A Low Birth Rate Isn’t One of Them.
Commentators across the political spectrum claim that humanity faces imminent collapse due to a “fertility crisis.” Is this mass delusion or cynical propaganda?


Agree about the rigid gender roles. They generally want to make the workplace and even hospitals or the world as hostile as they can especially to single, working women (insert obligatory “men too!” ;-/ ) and gloss over it.

It’s not gonna work. Or at least not without a fight to the end.,

A bit too late to turn back the clock on women’s rights and democracy and environmental laws entirely while dithering about it all being “inevitable” and waving away as paranoid and delusional all pushback that involves connecting dots in ways that are unflattering to the status quo rather than lightweight, marketplace friendly BS.

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