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The whole thing stinks of of ecofascism. These first two read as pretty clear calls for eugenicism/genocide to me.

> 1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.

> 2. Guide reproduction wisely – improving fitness and diversity.

#1 trends towards ecofascism but it's also a major theme in 70s environmentalism (was known as "the population bomb" and is now known as "degrowth") - it's false of course, but many people do believe it.

#2 is actually quite unique I think. I mean you could say it's eugenics, but eugenicists are rarely in favor of "diversity".

Sure they are- some diversity's obviously good so the whole population doesn't get wiped out by one disease. There's a tradeoff between diversity and it's resistance to that sort of disaster, and unity/homogeneity and its resistances to other problems. You'd be a poor eugsnicist to not take that into account!

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