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356 comments on Peak Oil, Carrying Capacity and Overshoot: Population, the Elephant in the Room
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Your right. It is a knee jerk reaction. And my knee is still jerking... Nazism IS the ideology of genetics and evolution.. Remember? Now, if you want to place that ideology in a nice little, sterile container and talk about it as an expression of natural biological imperatives, be my guest. You can focus (morbidly so, in my opinion) on the destructive competative tribal response, but I think it misses half the picture. I would argue that cooperation and restraint are also survival responses to a changing (resource depleted) enviornment. Thats the power of compromise and rationality. The magnitude of the 'population correction' in the face of resource scarcity will be greatly influenced by these factors as well.
Sorry, dabble_doomer, but you are mistaken.
Nazism is an "ideology" that uses so-called social darwinism.
It understands Darwinism not as a process of natural selection of the fittest (not necessarily the strongest!) as originally described, but as an imperative to actively pursue the dominance of a supposedly superior (in case of German nazism arian) race.
Selection of the "fittest" by natural forces, on the other hand, is completely unideological and can just as well affect human beings as any other species on the planet. Humans have no official or god-given grant to be bypassed by natural selection.
That does not mean that humans cannot use their individual intellect and social behaviour to try to mitigate threatening factors. There is just ample evidence that when times get harder, many people tend to abandon social behavior...
Cheers,
Davidyson