alienist comments on Compartmentalizing: Effective Altruism and Abortion - Less Wrong

23 Post author: Dias 04 January 2015 11:48PM

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Comment author: alienist 06 January 2015 02:21:10AM 10 points [-]

It surprises me that you didn't mention at all the harm of overpopulation as a factor.

What harm? The people warning about such harm have a rather long track record of failed predictions.

Comment author: taryneast 06 January 2015 10:44:17AM *  1 point [-]

Habitat destruction and subsequent loss of ecological diversity (based on a long-term view of several thousand years).

Note: I'm ok with abortion, and also with having kids - I endorse the idea of keeping the global population relatively stable until we can figure out how not to screw over the environment while we're busy making more stuff for ourselves. I don't endorse any drastic enforcements to that, because we seem to be doing ok on that front (peak child et al)