{"id":7067,"date":"2017-09-18T16:12:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T16:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=7067"},"modified":"2017-08-15T16:15:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T16:15:30","slug":"linked-how-can-the-human-race-survive-by-overcoming-biological-urge-to-procreate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/09\/18\/linked-how-can-the-human-race-survive-by-overcoming-biological-urge-to-procreate\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;How can the human race survive? By overcoming biological urge to procreate&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2606,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/geneticliteracyproject.org\\\/2017\\\/08\\\/03\\\/can-human-race-survive-overcoming-biological-urge-procreate&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20221205143842\\\/https:\\\/\\\/geneticliteracyproject.org\\\/2017\\\/08\\\/03\\\/can-human-race-survive-overcoming-biological-urge-procreate\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-04 00:34:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-18 14:33:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-03 22:08:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-24 09:36:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-24 09:36:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geneticliteracyproject.org\/2017\/08\/03\/can-human-race-survive-overcoming-biological-urge-procreate\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via Genetic Literacy Project<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>If he is correct, it means that even appealing to people\u2019s own rational self-interest about population control would not be enough. As for arguing it would benefit the greater good of humanity, we may as well forget it. As Kahneman himself said in an interview, you can\u2019t learn your way out of this trap. \u201cIt\u2019s not a case of \u2018Read this book and then you\u2019ll think differently\u2019. I\u2019ve written this book, and I don\u2019t think differently.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hope that in ten years, I will have contributed to the survival of our planet by not reproducing. Who knows what the future will hold but the evidence is very clear that we are at our biological limits for naturally existing on this planet in our current counts. Only science will save us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Genetic Literacy Project: If he is correct, it means that even appealing to people\u2019s own rational self-interest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2017-09-18T16:12:42Z","apple_news_api_id":"6565babd-909e-4033-88a9-e1856b32963a","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2017-09-18T16:12:45Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AZWW6vZCeQDOIqeGFazKWOg","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":["https:\/\/news-api.apple.com\/sections\/a6dbab72-c794-3987-8514-c419907b32a3"],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1PZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3482,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2012\/01\/17\/there-is-no-biological-reason-to-eat-three-meals-a-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":7067,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 &#8220;There Is No Biological Reason to Eat Three Meals a Day&#8230;&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"January 17, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"via Alternet: For most of history, meals were very variable. 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But chances are, most ninth-graders don\u2019t know the name of a single active astronaut\u2014many don\u2019t even know that Americans are up\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6976,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/08\/17\/linked-the-first-blogger-justin-hall\/","url_meta":{"origin":7067,"position":3},"title":"Linked: &#8220;The \u201cFirst\u201d Blogger, Justin Hall&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"August 17, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via Internet History Podcast: A lot of people give credit to Justin Hall for being, if not the first, then spiritually, at least, the \u201cfirst\u201d blogger. 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