I’m a socialist, so yes, I dig “government overreach” over petty bourgeois libertarianism.

I take it you’ve never lived in an agricultural area with low rainfall. It’s a precious resource that is often managed communally out of necessity. It’s very common in Mediterranean climates.

People who own property and therefore are subject to local ordinances may be relatively privileged, but that’s neither here nor there. They have local property ordinances to deal with regardless. Such ordinances are in fact usually about keeping property owners from hording a public resource, namely rainwater.

The “hydrogen economy” grift was a major plank of G.W. Bush’s election campaign decades ago.

With that said, Hossenfelder often embarrasses herself by straying from her areas of competence[1][2], so I’m fed up with her.

If you follow the money, you may not think it is unintentional. Why Bill Gates’s Philanthropy Is a Problem

http://archive.today/2024.07.10-033959/https://aninjusticemag.com/the-inescapable-neoliberal-bias-behind-kurzgesagt-in-a-nutshell-215eb1e9b70f

It’s never too late to develop actual media literacy.

We’re talking to you Kurzgesagt.

The 1% in Canada and the US is not the same thing as the 1% worldwide.

Yes, I read the abstract.

To be fair, if there’s a coherent definition of ecofascism, I’m not sure what it is, and I think I have seen ecofascism be over-applied, and I didn’t read the entire article nor look deeply into Rees’ body of work. But eugenics, ecofascism, and capitalism are closely linked.

From the above-linked Harris interview:

Your book presents a belief in eugenics as one of the most important intellectual threads that runs through Palo Alto’s history. Is eugenics still a force in the region today?

We’ve seen a huge swing back towards eugenic philosophy in Palo Alto. There are a lot of startups invested in eugenic technology. If you ask people, “Is that eugenics?” they’ll say “No!” But if you ask, “Are you trying to improve the quality of the baby stock?” “Well, yes, obviously.” These people are constantly forgetting the names for what they’re doing, intentionally, or as a useful adaptation, because then they can sell old-school eugenics as some new app.

Big Oil Helped Shape Stanford’s Latest Climate-Research Focus

Right, the “overshoot” is the paper clip maximizer that is inherent to capitalism. And it’s not human nature to think in “simplistic, reductionist, mechanical ways,” as if dialectical materialism is beyond the capacity of the common H. Sapiens brain pan. Unsurprisingly, China is leading the way while the monopoly capitalists of the imperial core are clamoring that China is “overproducing” green technology. Whatever one might think of the 1979–2015 One-child policy, it proves that foresight, planning, and successful implementation of massive mitigations are possible.

It’s unsurprising that this ecofascist, evolutionary psychology garbage might come out of Stanford.

• Stanford Eugenics History Project
• Greed, eugenics and giant gambles: author Malcolm Harris on the deadly toll of Silicon Valley capitalism

H. sapiens tends to respond to problems in simplistic, reductionist, mechanical ways. Simplistic diagnoses lead to simplistic remedies.

Talk about reductionist, Dr. Rees. This guy reeks of 19th century white male anthropologist.

That is an utter shite, neoliberal website: https://wtf1971.com/reading-list/

Ludwig Von Mises, F. A. Hayek, Murray Rothbard