“Our grotesque pollution and destruction of habitat is really hard to argue.”
I agree pollution is a problem, but it can be repaired if people were not lazy and selfish about lifestyle. What have you personally done about your footprint? Or are you one of those who wants everyone else to do it but refuse to make a few personal sacrifices of convenience and standard of living towards the cause? Control population so that you can personally keep your own lifestyle?
“Destruction of habitat”, I once had a perspective about Japan because there were so many tales of over population and habitat destruction. Tons of images shared about how packed into small spaces they are. I believed the propaganda about how they had encroached on all their natural habitat and were now packed in like sardines.
Then I got on Google earth and looked at it from satellite. Turns out that even though more than average only about 15% of japan is occupied. Most of the island is preserved wild lands. The brainwashing was just not true. And it is the same world wide...
Uh, no.
Our oceans, alone, are a catastrophe at this point.
I actually have a relatively small pollution footprint for an American, and I am not advocating depopulation or a global government-forced impoverishment of the masses. I also know that “climate change” as a governing model is a crock.
But lying about the environment and our impact on it—or oversimplifying that by trying to measure how much land people take up, whether globally or on a national basis—is baloney.