Science fiction writer and ecologist Kim Stanley Robinson (previously) writes that we need to “empty half the Earth of its humans” to save the planet – but not by the Green Left’s usual (and potentially genocidal) tactic of reducing our population by 50%.
Rather, Robinson takes a “promethean left” approach: build giant, high-tech, efficient cities that minimize the energy costs of transport, concentrate waste treatment and use vertical farms and other techniques to heal the “metabolic rift” where food is grown in one place and consumed somewhere else, preventing the waste product from returning to the soil.
The world is already urbanizing, so really Robinson is just talking about how to take best advantage of this phenomenon to preserve our world and the other living things we share it with.
