kings fall new version 0.2d by bastard games

The collapse of the Indian ecosystem will be something something capitalism. The Chinese attack on Taiwan will be because too many boys and not enough girls, so testosterone leads to fight fight fight. (Of course when that collision comes, god forbid we generalize from it to the one solution that can actually improve the situation god no! The Nigerian Civil War will be explained as something about Christians vs Muslims. And once you have adopted this viewpoint, that you can demand whatever you like (because it is 'right') and that thing will simply happen, because magic, you're all set for the inevitable collision with reality. They see no contradiction between their having kids and their demands that no new housing (or schools or factories or whatever) be built it's someone else's problem to reconcile these two. To take a somewhat less contentions example, very few of the people who generate a constant stream of complaints about growing cities have committed themselves to zero children. If there is any single thing we have learned since Ehrlich, it's that people are unlimited in their capacity to blame others for problems that they have caused.

There is never any shortage of intermediate links.

The most common link is war (and so we blame war, not the overpopulation that led to social unrest that led to a government feeling it needed to behave in a certain way), but another common one is bad weather (blame the weather, not the obvious fact that if food production has a standard deviation of so much, and if the population is sized to barely stay alive during the good years, then there will be problems during the bad years). Overpopulation *by itself* does nothing the chain of causality from overpopulation to disaster has many links, and people are extremely invested in ensuring that the blame is attached to one of those links, not to overpopulation. 'Over population will result in disaster' is one of those claims that will never be *allowed* to be vindicated, because people will always insist that some more proximate issue caused the disaster.

Kings fall new version 0.2d by bastard games