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

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

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

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

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

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?

@plants tell us

no

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

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

Why are these mutually exclusive

Yeah sure, finite resources are definitely not exhaustible

Yep

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

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.

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

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

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

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.