Ross Douthat has written one of the dumbest commentaries I've ever read at the NYT. How can the Times allow stupid shit like this, from a dumbass like Douthat onto its pages?!

In a world of melting icecaps, rising seas, snowmagedons, super storms, record droughts, burning forests, dying crops... this dickhead calls for more of the same thing that has brought us to the brink of ending civilization, OVERPOPULATION!



IN the eternally recurring debates about whether some rival great power will knock the United States off its global perch, there has always been one excellent reason to bet on a second American century: We have more babies than the competition.

How fucking stupid can you get, than to call for even more people consuming even more resources, putting even more CO2 into the atmosphere..., when we are literally going to the ends of the earth to try and squeeze the last drops of oil out of the earth, to find the last deposits of lithium to power our toys, and to find a dozen other bandaid resources that hold this fragile civilization together?

But this idiot goes even further. Not only does he want more consumers in a dying consumer society, he wants them to be blissfully ignorant and wasteful.