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The time it took for man to shift from bronze swords to iron swords is longer than the time it took to shift from iron swords to the nuclear bomb.
So hang on... It's traditionally poisonous to faeries in folk tales, it heralds the death of stars because it's non-fissionable, and it also rapidly created a society that could end the world in a single day?
Iron has some explaining to do.
Oh the irony
One for the ages
iron is just chill like that tbh…
Jumping Jesus Phenomenon
I fukn knew I'd find reference to Malthus in this before I even finished reading the second paragraph lol
Is Malthus problematic or? I'm not familiar actually
I don't know about the actual dude, but he is often cited next to reactionary takes--like how there isn't enough food for all of us [so we should let the poor die], general pearl clutching over high birthrates [in the wrong ethnic groups], and just generally very selectively utilitarian ways of viewing [certain kinds of] people.
That said, after clicking around some more on OP's link, I'm not really sure what the author is about at all.