A dreary, drudgey, fallacious, proto-soviet 27-year old reporter

This is kind of interesting from various angles.

Report: Americans will need to limit beef consumption to a burger and a half each week in order for the world to continue to feed the 10 billion people expected to live on this planet in 2050. https://t.co/uKZTnEbIka pic.twitter.com/5soEjLcL9b

— Denver7 News (@DenverChannel) July 17, 2019

Click for the comments.

The first point is that this is the kind of cognitive pollution which drives sane people crazy. Almost certainly the product of a Ben Rhodes reporter (27 years old and knows literally nothing.) Who probably has never heard of Paul Ehrlich a statist ideologue who made a multi-decade career being serially wrong about economics and demographics. Whose first instinct is always to to serve abstract others without understanding even the most minute element of how the world works. Whose second instinct is to ask for sacrifice from Americans in order to serve this putatively "good" agenda for the amorphous other. Whose third instinct is to equate any rational response to their own ignorant opinions as reflecting on the moral badness of the respondent.

Reporting so bad it is not even fake.

But that is by the by. We are accustomed to Ben Rhodes reporters getting their reporting badly wrong.

What is interesting are the responses to the reporting. The public is more informed and more tolerant and more humorous than the dreary, drudgey, fallacious, proto-soviet reporter.

That ratioing is brutal. When I looked, 1,600 snarky comments, 160 retweets and 400 likes.

Interesting that that reflects an 80:20 ratio. Pareto up to his old tricks again?

Some of the responses. Brutal, uncaring, ignorant responses. Or, in the real world, humorous, cheeky, witty responses.

IPOT
@IPOT1776

I heard that while standing in the Communist bread line.
Years ago.


S. Harp
@SHarp60855846

Sounds like the rest of the world is going to have a problem.


not_dirk_nowitzki
@mistercisco1

I'll take things that won't EVER happen for $1000 Alex.


Nephanor PhD PROvert
@Nephanor

Nope, fuck that. If they can’t sustain their population, I am not cutting back to help THEM. Let them take care of themselves.


stray cat
@Readingpets

Just another global attempt at making the Western World physically weak


El Bearsidente 江戸羆 🐻
‏@Edohiguma

That's not how this works.

Current agricultural tech allows us to feed 15 billion people. The problem is not western consumption, but rather developing countries being stuck in corrupt regimes and having learned to depend on the west in everything rather than build up their own.


Nom Treason
@DeGuerre_Nom

These calamitous predictions have been comically inaccurate in every single case for about 200 years, but please tell us more...


Milo Stone
@GooberGabbing

Huh, just "Americans?"

How about we eat what we want?


Civil Society Lost
@CivilLost

I'm gonna eat an extra one because of this report.


Pounces O'Houlihan
@Earnest_T_Base

Fine, here and there, I’ll substitute the burger with a med rare rib-eye, happy now?


Cᴜʀᴛ ᴛʜᴇ Lɪʙᴇʀᴛᴀʀɪᴀɴ
@checkmatestate

Please learn some economics. I'd recommend focusing on price theory and the law of supply and demand.


JereCTN
@JereCTN

I'm willing to cut down on burgers. But I'll make up for it with choice cuts of steak.

Your call.