collapse

I am saying one cannot speak seriously about how technological advances will drive immiseration by overpopulation while being a completely integrated part of the most technological and most genocidal civilization on the planet. There is no way for it to be an objective sober analysis of systems because it is inherently a narrative that will be used by that system to continue its centuries-long genocidal program.

It would be like saying that measuring the volume of skulls and correlating it with intelligence is just sober objective biological analysis in the middle of the transatlantic slave trade. Which is among the things we were doing and saying in the sciences during that time.

This can essentially only be responsibly analyzed and communicated by and with the global subaltern as part of their program of resistance and liberation. It can never be a part of the administration and maintenance of empire because it will always lead to the same fascistic outcome regardless of intent.

First we must end the greatest source of human suffering in the world - genocidal white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, responsible for a nearly million deaths of deprivation per year through trade policy alone, and the constant instigator of the overwhelming majority of kinetic conflict - and THEN we can talk about how the liberated people can choose to assess and adapt to carrying ecosystem capacity limits.