I get that he’s America-centric, but I’m not really seeing how being raised in America is a guarantee of being raised in wealth or (of all things) being more conservation-minded. After all we’re not all rich here, and we’re certainly not all conservation-minded, given that Lee himself is actively opposed to doing a single damn thing to help the environment.
We may indeed have a better education system than the average still-industrializing region, but if we scooped up more foreign babies and raised them here they’d have the advantage of our education system here too.
Really what saves him here is that he explicitly compared America to “still-industrializing” regions, which is a fairly meaningless term which one could theoretically contract to just areas without electricity and running water. Putting the US against, say, Europe, I don’t think we come off as more likely to produce magic science sorcerers who can wave wands and fix climate change like he’s claiming they will.
And of course if we’re willing to admit that being the US is no guarantee of wealth then we should definitely be desperately admitting immigrants from every country imaginable to get our baby count up - because his entire dumbass argument is “If we as a country get our baby count up them miracles will happen (fifty years from now after I’m safely dead and can’t lose money over it)”. More babies is more babies is more babies, and since more babies is apparently the key to magic happening then it shouldn’t matter what color their skin is.
Which is not to say that Mirthra was right and American babies would be worse due to being consumers or whatever - Lee’s argument (such as it is) is “1.Babies 2.??? 3.Profit!” and thus american babies are as good as any (non-still-industrializing) babies for his dumbass purposes. More babies is more babies is more babies, simple as that.
What I don’t understand is - we have smart scientists now, offering solutions and ways ahead, but people don’t want to listen to them. What makes him think that those in power will listen to people 50 years from now?
He doesn’t think that, of course - it’s all bullshit. He just wants to do nothing, because the people who fund him are opposed to doing anything.
…though he’d probably tell you that he expects future scientists to come up with palatable solutions. Which is to say, solutions that require no cost or effort by anyone and most certainly won’t involve any company having to do anything that would impact their bottom line (like selling less petroleum). Until something like that turns up just keep having more babies; surely one of them will come up with the solution someday!
Yeah, but some people today actually agree with him. Seems to me they are just morons who are clinging to “maybe someday, someone else will invent magic!”