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  • Of course there are solutions other than genocide, it all just comes down to the timescale available. I do unfortunately think that the situation is urgent now, but on a longer timescale it could look like China’s one child policy, or programs with incentives for voluntary birth control access, maybe even sterilization.

    There are lots of ways to solve this that range from completely or questionably moral, to socially responsible and planned. I care about the long term survival of the human race, and the rest of the planet, I could absolutely be talked into putting that far ahead of my own well-being depending on the circumstances.




  • I find the idea that people actually think overpopulation is a non issue actually a threat to the survival of the human race, the overall biosphere, and the planet.

    I’m not sure why this understanding changed, but it’s a Western cultural perspective with the younger generation from what I can tell, it does not reflect reality.

    Climate science, and history are a huge passion of mine, I’m beyond certain about this, and it seems impossible that so many people would be willfully ignorant to the point of denial about things so obvious and self evident.


  • I’m actually not. I’m anti capitalist and pro communist, I’m still actually aware of the massive amount of farmland and logging operations needed for basic housing and food, I know how long it takes to grow trees, and understand that we can’t realistically replace old growth forests and their natural canopies. I understand how much water is available in the Middle East, Northwest Africa, and the Midwest United States, and the already absurdly unsustainable cities in those geographic areas, I understand climate change and the monumental and existential threat that poses.

    I promise, we cannot sustain this many humans, we cannot sustainably produce consumable fuel for this many humans even now, it is actually going to effectively ‘run out’ ( being infeasible and hugely damaging to the flora and fauna of the area )

    You must be young and inexperienced, untravelled and in an informational and cultural bubble, it should actually be impossible for you to be so wrong otherwise.


  • Absolutely untrue and dangerous thinking, we’ve already done almost incomprehensible damage to what we call the ecosystem and biosphere, and we frame everything in human terms.

    Human activity is a major problem, and that problem scales tremendously with population. I’ve watched the natural world decline dramatically in my lifetime, the world that gave rise to human civilization doesn’t exist anymore and it’s bounty plundered.

    It used to be everyone understood human population was a problem, now it’s considered problematic to discuss, but it’s more true. I’ve watched the human population more than double, our biosphere is devastated, humans are just one species, and the world lies plundered and dying because humans think they should be allowed to live in major excess to the rest of the species in the world.



  • Nuts take, planet is absolutely overpopulated with human beings, 100% undeniably. It isn’t just some abstract number, it’s the farms, fuel, logging, goods, the absolute everything a single human being partakes in or experiences. Human beings aren’t even managing to properly care, feed, and clothe the humans that are already here, and more igual systems won’t address the continuing need to scale into the environment and destroy even more land that nature needs to maintain the biosphere. I super promise we do not have enough even now, and even when the population was 3 billion we were overconsuming irreplaceable natural resources that other creatures were using.