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by aaron695 3997 days ago
TL;DR; Anti-science article that knows it is, but preemptively calls that it will be called that. Scientists don't start out by saying I will be called anti-science. They prove points through facts.

Nothing they state in the 5 points has the facts to back it up.

> Ireland’s population was decimated by the effect of monoculture during the potato famine. Just consider that the same can happen at a planetary scale.

We have famine at a planetary scale, just the writers are not in that famine.

"Some 795 million people in the world do not have enough food to lead a healthy active life. " https://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats

[edit] "The Black Swan" is just plan wrong, I really don't get why people buy into that book. It's a cute idea. But wrong.