https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9315181/

Abstract:

As anthropogenic climate change threatens human existence on Earth, historians have begun to explore the scientific antecedents of environmental Malthusianism, the idea that human population growth is a major driver of ecosystem degradation and that environmental protection requires a reduction in human numbers. These accounts, however, neglect the antagonistic relationship between environmental Malthusianism and demography, thereby creating an illusion of scientific consensus. This article details the entwined histories of environmental Malthusianism and demography, revealing points of disagreement – initially over methods of analyzing and predicting population growth and later over the role of population growth in ecosystem degradation – and moments of strategic collaboration that benefited both groups of scientists. It contends that the image of scientific consensus in existing histories has lent support to ongoing calls for population control, detracting attention from more proximate causes of environmental devastation, such as polluting modes of production, extractive business practices and government subsidies for fossil fuel development.

Abridged conclusion:

Since the end of World War II, environmental Malthusians have pointed to ecosystem degradation as supposedly obvious evidence that the Earth is already overpopulated and have called for population control as an alternative to environmental regulation and economic redistribution. Despite their scientific opposition, demographers collaborated with environmental Malthusians just long enough in the 1950s and 1960s to create a global population movement that advanced the agendas of both groups. The harms caused by that movement – both by governments that explicitly limited childbearing, such as China, and by supposedly voluntary programs that nonetheless imposed contraception where it was not desired – have been well documented (Connelly, 2008; Greenhalgh, 2008; Hartmann, 1995). However, even the most critical histories of the population control movement largely fail to recognize the illusory nature of the scientific consensus that claimed to undergird it.

Correct, but widely used by those on the Fediverse. Just like how there’s a spot on your profile for your Matrix handle on here.

Matrix is federated via bridges. It’s a sister protocol.

https://github.com/microsoft/inshellisense if you have to stay with Bash :)

step 1: sudo apt install sl

step 2: fuck up

step 3: ???

step 4: profit!!!

Yeah, about that…

Religion is a tool and was one of the first forms of government, a proto-government. States are also a tool, do the same shit (resource control) and now that god is capital. Many modern religious folks do more mutual aid in their community than the average terminally online leftist and I don’t blanket blame others for seeking meaning when lives are complicated and messy. People need social safety nets and now churches are fallbacks when states fail in different areas. Be kind to individuals and ruthless to systems. States are just continuing where the schism with religion left off. Religious institutions managed surplus extraction, states took over that function (often incorporating religious legitimation), and now capital operates as the organising logic with its own quasi-sacred justifications. New Atheist attitudes often miss the forest for the trees and function as a reactionary sentiment not grounded in materialism. It treats religion as a causal prime mover rather than as an institution shaped by and serving material interests. I have book reccomendations if you are interested in this. Note, Christianity is really interesting case sudy, but that is a whole seperate conversation.

I’m tired, chat.

Wut

You are mistaken. I see your point, I just disagree with it.

Vietnam was about oil, do not blame religion they knew what they were doing. It’s always class warfare.

Long time partnered Sims creators have been collectively bailing and denouncing the take over. It’s warmed my cold dead heart a bit.

Every time I have to, I have an inexplicable rage that appears deep within me that goes away as soon as I don’t have to deal with it anymore.

There are different ways of holding back packages: with dpkg, apt, dselect, aptitude or Synaptic. Lots of options.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/18654/how-to-prevent-updating-of-a-specific-package

I don’t often use Snaps, so I dk. Regardless, KDE bugs are my biggest slow down lmao.

Never had those problems! I’ve locked certain software versions before. But, every user has different needs. :)

I wish I found it before I handed my thesis in, it’s just parallel to everything I’ve been trying to articulate.

Kagi plus https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/content-farm-terminator/

There’s also https://marginalia-search.com/ and https://wiby.me/

:) It just works.

I use Ubuntu btw.

This book and being in proximity with a lot of punk bands. Note this book is just about foreign policy in the last 100 years or so.

https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/901/The-School-of-the-AmericasMilitary-Training-and

It’s on Anna’s Archive.

Edit: Also, growing up in the Rust Belt doesn’t give you a whole lot of faith in states.