in a way the author's thesis is contrary to a thesis that i think is more well established, that the left's view of the world is that humans are naturally decent and it's the institutions that cause our problems; whereas the right's view is that humans are naturally indecent and it's institutions that make us better.

i disagree with both. what i think is really going on is that humans are neither decent nor indecent, but that we are what we are and institutions make us either better or worse, depending on the quality of the institutions. but that's beside the point, the left's narrative really does seem to be that people are inherently good, which i find a contradictory idea to the claim that the left has an agenda of depopulation.