![]() ![]() ![]() People take action to avoid small harms all the time.” “I don’t think that that’s right as a theory of human motivation. “I think that there is a view that if something is bad, if it’s a real problem, that the best thing to do is state the problem in the bleakest possible terms, because that will motivate people to go take action,” Yglesias says. “And they’re all for some reason living in underground cities and eating algae at almost the population that we have today.”ĭystopian scenarios may make for exciting stories, but often their predictions are so dire that they inspire hopelessness rather than resolve. “The whole theme of the robot novels is that there are these incredibly low living standards on Earth, which describes, if I’m remembering it correctly, as having a population of 8 billion people,” he says. Yglesias says that the grim futures depicted in these stories are not based in reality. This vision stands in stark contrast to sci-fi books and movies such as Soylent Green and The Caves of Steel, which present population growth as a recipe for disaster. ![]()
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