Highlights From The Comments On Kids And Climate Change
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Follows up on
↳ Please Don't Give Up On Having Kids Because Of Climate Change — Essay · Oct 2021
Summary
Companion to Please Don't Give Up On Having Kids Because Of Climate. Scott defends the principle-of-charity toward people genuinely climate-worried, engages Median-Voter-Theorem debates, rebuts Karlin's eugenics argument with a counter-eugenics one, argues the First World is far from food/water shortage, and offers his global-dimming/Ethiopia-famine model of climate harm ('several million dead but we'll never be sure it was climate') + David Friedman's IPCC-alarmism corrections + the CS Lewis 'How Will The Bomb Find You' closer.
Why this score
Quality 68 · Strong. Top of the companion band: real content (esp. the global-dimming model of climate harm + the charity-cuts-both-ways point), held below the 70 parent (ACX-185).
Claude’s paradigm shift 46 · Moderate. Notable: the global-dimming framing of how climate harm actually manifests.
Real-world impact 1 · Negligible. Within-discourse companion; no material effect. =1.