Reply #14: Your argument would work better if I was proposing that we "fund a cause"

[GliderGuider]

I'm not. If anything, I'm proposing that we future-proof our civilization by taking the possibility of catastrophe into account when we make decisions. Things like, "Let's not put nuclear reactors on fault lines." Or, "Maybe funding womens' education and contraception as foreign aid to developing countries is a good idea". Or, "How about not drowning our lakes and oceans in fertilizer residue?" Or, "Let's not put a big city on top of a super-volcano caldera." Or "Let's not incentivize Big Ag, Big Pharma, Big Fossil or Big Families."

None of it takes a lot of money or even a doomer mentality. Just risk awareness and the desire to survive.

ETA: This really has little to do with whether Malthus was right or wrong. If he was wrong there's nothing we need to do; if he was right then there's little we can do. I'm just illuminating the possibility that he might have been right, and encouraging people to think about the implications.