"I do not think humanity is in a great situation right now. And I think if somebody doesn't fix the problem, we could be gone," Malcolm half-shouted as he pushed his sniffling 18-month-old, Torsten, back and forth in a child-size Tonka truck.

the Great Man ideology here is amazing. collective action? psshhh, we just don't have the right individual yet!

Along with his 3-year-old brother, Octavian, and his newborn sister, Titan Invictus, Torsten has unwittingly joined an audacious experiment.

:what-the-hell: the names are unethical enough without even bringing up experimenting on your children

According to his parents' calculations, as long as each of their descendants can commit to having at least eight children for just 11 generations, the Collins bloodline will eventually outnumber the current human population.

and here is pure idealism. as if the "commitment" is more of a factor in whether they will have eight kids than their material conditions including the environment they are pissing away