• 0laura@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 days ago

    the planet is not overpopulated. narratives like overpopulation are used by and can quickly lead to nazi stuff.

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      7 days ago

      I guess it’s a quality versus quantity thing. It’s a lot easier for 4 billion people to coexist happily than it is for 8 billion people in the same space.

      Our food air and water quality have all dropped dramatically over the last 50 years even though the protections for them have increased.

      If half the population did not reproduce then those of us that have grandkids might live in a better world.

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        6 days ago

        I don’t think so.

        Having less children means having worse ratio of elderly to young people, which strains social security and may ultimately force seniors to work until they die, while young generation will see an ever greater burden of disabled elderly.

        Unless you want to shoot people after certain age, that is. But, happily, this is a tradeoff unlikely to be accepted.

    • WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      We’re overpopulated given our current resource distribution/consumption, but solving that through eugenics is obviously moronic.