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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SW-User

I agree. Overpopulation would mean that there are not enough resources to sustain the population, but that is not true. Resources are just unequally distributed. That said, I think the world can become overpopulated (a lot of people like to say, “well, look at all the empty space!” but a lot of that empty space is dry, non-arable land) and high population creates other problems, but overpopulation discourse is almost always some kind of shaming of poorer countries and that is simply elitism and Western chauvinism. India might have a much higher population than the U.S., but Western counties like the U.S. consume far more per capita.

CountScrofula · 41-45, M

@SW-User Agreed on all points.

revenant · F

@SW-User all I am seeing is West shaming not Africa shaming. Nobody goes to Africa or India and says : stop having so many kids you cannot feed BUT people in the West are being shamed for having kids in the name of " save the planet".

SW-User

@revenant Well, yes, we shame our own all the time (and the same demographics are most targeted: the poor, the “welfare queens”, etc.)

revenant · F

@SW-User I would say the West is very arrogant for expecting the rest of the world to accept its standards