This is the most absurd false dichotomy.
"Should humankind continue? If the answer is yes, then we’re already dealing in the realm of pronatalism, where the good of childbearing is taken for granted—and differences in approaches would likely come down to policy particulars. But if the answer is no, then all of politics is moot anyhow."
#ElizabethBruenig, 2025
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/democrats-pronatalism-family-policies/681827/
On a finite planet, overpopulation is just as likely to wipe us out as underpopulation.
"Historians may one day reflect on the open concubinage at the end of America’s experiment with liberal democracy, and what it revealed about the disruption characteristic of our era: the compromise of the right’s typical defense of traditional families by the Nietzscheans of Silicon Valley, in favor of having children for quantity’s sake."
#ElizabethBruenig, 2025
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/democrats-pronatalism-family-policies/681827/
Elizabeth Bruenig has been nominated for a Pulitzer for her amazing and shocking reporting on botched executions in Alabama. If you have not had the chance to read her work, definitely take the time to check it out. What she uncovered was state brutality that is both illegal and tremendously immoral.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/05/elizabeth-bruenig-pulitzer-finalist-2023/673996/
#DeathPenalty #TheAtlantic #Pulitzer #ElizabethBruenig #Journalism #Alabama
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