[tanbog]

I used to think its roots lay in some kind of biblical fetish for armageddon. I have no qualifications in this area though so this is just my armchair-psychologist theory.

Oh that and often weird racism about how many people live in poor countries.

[vanniv]

I also don't pretend to understand.

It can't just be those two things, though, because it's really big in the U.S. right now on the political left, and especially that part of the far-left that relentlessly mock the right for both their religion and their supposed racism/"whiteness".

In some ways, it's an anti-economic-growth, anti-capitalist sentiment that portrays the great conflict of the world as between "the world" and "human economic activity"

But there's a lot to unpack in the question "Why won't Malthus die" that I won't claim to understand at all.

[Nasrudith]

I suspect other parts of it has to do with tribalistic mentalities and the Morton's fork.

If others have things you want then they are stealing from you. If others are poor then they are a threat because they might want to take what you have.

Belief in the neccessity of one's actions is one hell of a drug that sticks a magnet onto their moral compass ensuring it always points to "correct".