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ThatOneDude

Commander in @Chief, Dick Army
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Jan 14, 2015
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Prince Phil is dead. Good, only a few more to go.
 
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kneeblock

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I would have to agree that the world is over populated and that's causing distress on the environment

What part do you disagree with?
The world isn't overpopulated, not is it causing distress on the environment. This is a common cannard among certain segments of the reactionary wing of the environmental movement that took hold especially in the 1960s and has in the US and some parts of Europe merged with anti-migration policies. In particular, in the US this myth has been promulgated by the Tanton network, which was founded by thankfully deceased ophthalmologist John Tanton and his Federation for American Immigration Reform. They've been funded by the Scaife foundation out of Pittsburgh to spread their gospel all based on the work of an obscure French author by the name of Jean Raspail whose book The Camp of the Saints prophesies a dystopia where migrants represent the great unwashed besieging Europe and wreaking environmental and social catastrophe. In Europe, some of this reactionary environmentalism is older and goes back to eugenics theories current in the early part of the twentieth century. Philip somehow threw in with this ideology and frequently commented on decimating human populations etc.

What is the kernel of truth in the argument is that modern western capitalists societies as they're currently organized do threaten the planet, but not because of any overcapacity of humans. Mostly because of poor land use, awful urban planning, unrestrained pollution and incentives toward overproduction in the name of "growth." The idea, basically parroted by Thanos in the Marvel cinematic universe, that population reduction would be the best solution is really the laziest most genocidal thinking possible because we always know which populations are the target of this ire, namely the lower classes. Philip outlined his thoughts on this in a number of public appearances and writings, and it's not an uncommon belief among the ultra-wealthy, which is why there are frequent fantasies of escape such as seasteading, orbital space stations, trips to Mars, etc. A member of an old monarchy espousing this philosophy is fairly unsurprising, of course, but it seems he also put his money where his mouth is to materially support groups advocating the spread of this set of beliefs.