The world is not overpopulated

Overpopulation is a myth that's been going around since the dawn of eugenics since the entire point of it is to reduce the number of undesirable people and the undesirable people for some reason, are never of European extraction.

There is enough food, power, and materials for everybody. We live in a post-scarcity world. If a warehouse full of food cannot be sold, that food will always be thrown out rather than donated. We sprawl out our cities rather than build them up because there is so much space. Our arable land is used for luxury goods and meat.

We will literally go to another country, train and fund killers to put dictators in charge, the dictators let our corporations buy all the land, and then that land is used to grow luxury goods the locals barely see a dime from and never get to enjoy. Then we complain about them having too many kids.

If the population of the earth was half of it was right now, the amount of hunger in the world would be the same.

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JimboSaturn · 56-60, M

We also impact all the other life on the planet and alter our planet's systems. I think this also plays into this. The more humans there are on this planet living the way we do, the more degradation and species exctinction.

CountScrofula · 41-45, M

@JimboSaturn The #1 driver of extinctions is climate change and I don't think there's a population solution to that.

JimboSaturn · 56-60, M

@CountScrofula and loss of habitat

caesar7 · 61-69, M

@JimboSaturn 👍

CountScrofula · 41-45, M

@JimboSaturn This too can be managed.

The destruction we heap upon this planet is not driven by our population but by our pursuit of profit luxury.

We build cities out, not up. We focus on cars instead of trains. We eat so much meat that it requires VAST amounts of land. We hold entire nations at gunpoint so they can grow chocolate for us instead of food for themselves.

I am absolutely convinced that humanity can live a more sustainable existence.

Focusing on population switches the blame from the ruling class who actually are ruining the world to people in Bangladesh or wherever.

Like Canada is -under- populated but our resource consumption and environmental degradation is astonishing.

JimboSaturn · 56-60, M

@CountScrofula Oh ya , we suck.

CountScrofula · 41-45, M

@JimboSaturn I'm Canadian, and 85% of my country live in a straight line from Windsor to Quebec City.

WHY ISN'T THERE A TRAIN THERE WE'D TAKE SO MANY CARS OFF OF THE ROAD

JimboSaturn · 56-60, M

@CountScrofula I'm a fellow Canadian and like you, I'm disgusted. Our public transportation sucks, we have sprawling wasteful cities. Make big promises to lower CO2 emisions but fail miserably.
Seems like the more people have to waste, the more they do. I know imagine what can be done with better transportation infrastructure between Quebec City to Windsor?