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.
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’.
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
Literally just the amount of fertilizer that we need to produce to grow crops at our scale causes downstream environmental harms. I fail to see how you could sustain 7B people at anywhere close to a comfortable modern lifestyle.
A more just economic system doesn’t even necessarily reduce emissions. Yeah it’s wasteful when a billionaire takes a private jet, but it’s also incredibly wasteful when a million people install air conditioning.
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)
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
masterspace@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Do you have a source for that?
Literally just the amount of fertilizer that we need to produce to grow crops at our scale causes downstream environmental harms. I fail to see how you could sustain 7B people at anywhere close to a comfortable modern lifestyle.
A more just economic system doesn’t even necessarily reduce emissions. Yeah it’s wasteful when a billionaire takes a private jet, but it’s also incredibly wasteful when a million people install air conditioning.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
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)