Reply
  • Sep 7, 2020

    Like this person is just really stupid right? Or do they actually have a point

  • Sep 7, 2020
    ·
    1 reply

    yes it is have you seen how small the biggest cities in the world are compared to the amount of empty land there is

  • The emoji virtue signaling on Twitter is absolutely terrible these days

  • Sep 7, 2020
    Jon
    https://twitter.com/alliumdevourer/status/1302437643754504192

    Like this person is just really stupid right? Or do they actually have a point

    i'd go with a yes and no tbh.

    i think it's a myth to say that overpopulation is an immediate, unavoidable problem - there's so much room to redistribute/reorganise wealth and resources, and to cut down on the enormous amount of wastage in our current supply chains that we could definitely solve any current problems.

    but given that we occupy a finite amount of space with a finite amount of resources, there has to be some theoretical point at which population growth would become unsustainable

  • Sep 7, 2020
    ·
    1 reply

    wouldn't the planet die at a faster rate if there were more humans?

  • Sep 7, 2020

    an overpopulated earth might be ok once general ai type s*** slides thru, as i presume most humans wouldn't be a part of the workforce anymore and we'd just be accounted for by the ais

  • Sep 7, 2020
    ·
    1 reply

    How are people so ed that the concept of overpopulation eludes them, despite several real world instances of overpopulation making society hell and NATURE itself proving that overpopulation is real?

  • 6isco 🦈
    Sep 7, 2020
    ·
    edited
    ·
    2 replies

    @plants tell us

  • Sep 7, 2020
    6isco

    @plants tell us

  • Sep 7, 2020

    no

  • Sep 7, 2020
    ·
    1 reply

    this is how twitter will ruin the world. completely wrong twitt with 136k likes smh

  • Sep 8, 2020
    ·
    edited

    Just because corporations contribute to ecological harm doesn’t mean overpopulation can’t contribute to ecological harm

    Why are these mutually exclusive

  • Sep 8, 2020

    Yeah sure, finite resources are definitely not exhaustible

  • Sep 8, 2020

    Yep

  • Sep 8, 2020
    ·
    edited
    ·
    3 replies

    The myth is that we'll somehow breed ourselves out of existence because of lack of resources when really the problem is how those resources are distributed

    You calling the person op dumb when you don't even realize we could fit every human being in texas

    overpopulationisamyth.com/episode-1-overpopulation-the-making-of-a-myth

  • Sep 8, 2020

    in 2 learn

  • Overpopulation is real, and it's literally the opposite reason for that tweet

    The earth only has enough land and resources to sustain a quality of life for so many people for a certain length of time, and we are actively plundering and polluting our way into creating an uninhabitable wasteland to sustain the infinite-growth demands of capitalism. If there isn't millions of more consumers, and millions of more workers to exploit every year, the Ponzi scheme that is our current economy falls apart really f***ing fast.

    That isn't to say you shouldn't have your own kids, because the problem of overpopulation isn't solved with individual action. The entire system needs to crash and reduce the artificial incentives that currently exist.

  • Sep 8, 2020
    ·
    1 reply

    If we continue to live and consume like we do then it isn’t.

  • Sep 8, 2020
    ·
    1 reply
    ICED BLACK COFFEE

    If we continue to live and consume like we do then it isn’t.

    So it’s how we live, overusing which means the problem isn’t overpopulation but greed and convenience over human life

  • Ooo

    So it’s how we live, overusing which means the problem isn’t overpopulation but greed and convenience over human life

    Yup. The population is too big for our patterns of consumption.

  • Sep 8, 2020
    ·
    2 replies

    no it isn’t a myth lol stupid twitter keyboard warriors who took one intro economics class in college and got a C think they know everything

  • Sep 8, 2020
    soccerfanj

    this is how twitter will ruin the world. completely wrong twitt with 136k likes smh

  • Sep 8, 2020
    ·
    edited

    I mean yes and no but as always the issue is complex so simply taking sides on "the issue" is insufficient.

    Lonely 4chan doomers lashing out at people for having children they can afford doesn't solve toxic patterns of consumption and wealth distribution.