Andy Nowicki is wrong on the issue of overopulation.

As much as I like Andy Nowicki compared to most I have seen or read on the so-called Alternative Right, I do disagree strongly with him on overpopulation and eugenics.

I find it a bit baffling that Nowicki would support unlimited breeding, given that the cause for this is usually incontinence. Maybe half or so of children are accidents.

It also begs the question of how many people there should be. Shall we all have dozens of children, or as many as possible? Is continence to be rejected completely? Why force children to grow up in broken families?

Also, resource scarcity needs to be taken into account, as well as the fragility of modern society, being highly dependent on technology. In case of failures of infrastructure, humans could be dying on a mass scale. A large population would only result in even greater numbers of dead people, even more chaos.

Gómez Dávila throws some Colombian dynamite our way:

Marx may win battles, but Malthus will win the war.

Demographic pressure makes people brutish.

An abrupt demographic expansion rejuvenates society and makes its stupidities recrudesce.

Eugenics appals those who fear its judgment.

No beneficiary of slaves is supporter of birth control.

Depopulate and reforest – first civilizing rule.

Although it grieves the angelism of the democrat: one cannot build a civilisation with miserable biological material.

The two most pressing problems of the contemporary world: demographic expansion and genetic deterioration are unsolvable.
Liberal principles prevent the solution of the first, egalitarian ones that of the second.

Geneva, the Geneva that Calvin reigns from his sickbed, the Geneva whose shadow extends from the pulpit of Knox to the hallways of the Vatican, the Geneva where a world was formed, had about 12.000 inhabitants in 1560.
The huge modern human masses are not only a problem, but superfluous.

A totalitarian state is the structure into which societies crystallize under demographic pressures.

Population growth disquiets the demographer only when he fears that it will impede economic progress or make it harder to feed the masses.
But that man needs solitude, that human proliferation produces cruel societies, that distance is required between men so that the spirit might breathe, does not interest him.
The quality of a man does not matter to him.

The modern world resulted from the confluence of three independent causal series: the demographic expansion, democratic propaganda, the industrial revolution.