That doesn’t mean we’re not overpopulated though.
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AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 months agoIt’s already progressed beyond that, global birth rates are already hitting and falling below replacement rate
masterspace@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It does not. I don’t have a genuine opinion on whether or not we are overpopulated. It doesn’t seem to matter since the trend is already very much in the opposite direction and there’s nothing we can do even if we decide we are.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
We are though, by any objective measure of our planet’s health and sustainability.
The only measure that you could look at that would suggest we weren’t overpopulated is the billionaire musk view of ‘but more indentured servants mean that I get richer’.
protist@mander.xyz 2 months ago
The negative impacts of our systems of consumption and exploitation are different the number of humans that are on the earth, though. We could easily sustain everyone on earth with much less of an environmental impact with current technology and a more just economic system
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
any objective measure of our planet’s health and sustainability.
How much of that is due to capitalism being an inefficient economic distribution system, though? (I’m not saying it isn’t, I just haven’t done enough research on that to have an opinion)
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 2 months ago
There aren’t much countries where the population is actually growing, and where there is still growth, it won’t be for much longer. Governments are increasingly panicking over depopulation. Babies are future workers and customers after all. They tried immigration, but that runs into popular backlash.
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