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limit population growth where it is exploding

How do you propose to do this? Genuinely interested in the answer, as this is probably the most practical if we can figure it out. Especially considering that nations retain sovereignty over their own policies, what's in it for them? They would lose economic growth.

limit mass migration to countries with high per capita emissions

Again, can you clarify? Are you going to tell people they must remain in third-world undeveloped poverty? That's how you get wars.

ask people to forgo affordable energy

Again, good luck. Most people aren't amenable to the idea of returning to a stone age.

Africa still has yet to industrialize, but it's coming, and with it a huge population boom. It would be a massive challenge to stop this, especially since it would likely economically cripple an already poverty-stricken continent and prevent or seriously inhibit economic growth. They are arguably the biggest concern here; not sure what we can do to stop it. Much of what you're saying seems premised on the "I'm-king-for-a-day" way of thinking.

You use "post-modernism" like Jordan Peterson uses "post-modernism"... incorrectly, and likely without having read any of it.

Incorrect on both counts. And I use it to describe the philosophical base that essentially, there is no absolute truth and nothing can be taken for reality. Which, ironically, post-modernists use their only absolute truth.

reducing population (not through genocide obviously) for expedience is actually a very neoliberal idea

What makes you think I'm a neoliberal? And what does that have to do with what I said? More importantly, how would you reduce it? It took hundreds of years for the West to reduce birth rates. Cultural factors often mean people have many children, even if they have access to birth control. See the attempts to do this in Africa. There has been some success, but not a ton.

The new Dropbox 7 years ago

Oh yay, a new interface to learn. Just what every body asked for, not. Companies do this all the time to justify higher prices. Some times, a well-done piece of software can just go into maintenance mode for a while.

But do you know what I hate about dropbox? Dropping support for most linux filesystems. Seriously, why? That was the one deciding factor for me. I had looked at other options, but that did it. Owncloud does a fine job, and most people at my company like it fine.