The social contract has been gradually transformed. It will be no longer be one where cultural and legal institutions exist to defend innocent human life.
Those same institutions are being rehewn to set standards for a high quality of human life and to promote its achievement -- for those who are permitted to survive.
Those who are seduced by this Malthusian driven "necessity" will come to think they are gods and worthy.
Then there's the rest; the not quite so worthy. The article describes them here: Many ignore the debate, perhaps hoping that they will have no culpability when innocent, vulnerable lives are extinguished.
These fools too, fearful to enter into the debate, are, as I've analogized before, in a malevolent doublethink game of musical chairs. They will have hell to pay for their callousness and misplaced faith.
Isn't it obvious? If one sees it coming, and is afraid to speak of it, and is hoping it's the next one who gets taken, one will be consumed by it.
The enviro-wackos tell us they see a glorious day when our planet will no longer have to support more than half a billion people.
Know that they and their patrons will try.