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Galton, Ehrlich, Buck - An exploding generational bomb

Astral Codex Ten Podcast

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The Importance of Sustainability in Sterilization

Ehrlich is still very much alive. He remains a professor emeritus at Stanford and president of Stanford's Center for Conservation Biology. The idea that every woman should have as many babies as she wants is to me exactly the same kind of idea as everyone ought to be permitted to throw as much of their garbage into their neighbors' back yard as they want," he said in 2015. Scott writes, Luckily for Ehrlich, no one cares. He is about as honored and beloved as it's possible for a public intellectual to get.

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