Precautionary types aspire to a “sustainable” humanity, which invariably means bringing fewer of us into existence, with each of us making less of an impact on the planet. Those with a proactionary bent are happy to increase the planet’s human population indefinitely as nothing more or less than a series of experiments in living, regardless of outcomes.
两者同样在对人类的概念上大相径庭。持预防性观点的人希望实现人类的“可持续性”，而这总是意味着人越少越好，每个人对地球造成的影响越小越好。主动性倾向者却乐于无限增加地球上的人口数量，对他们来说这不过是一系列生存实验，至于结果如何则不太在意。