Because, unlike oil, humans are a renewable resource.
Like, oil, however, too many of us is unsustainable.
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AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Why is this post so controversial?
DomeGuy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
too many of us is unsustainable.
That’s very much a problem of yesteryear, given that we’re currently doing below replacement rate globally.
RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 4 months ago
To sustain the current amount of humans, we are using unsustainable methods. That makes us unsustainable as well.
Some estimates from Wikipedia: “Climate change, excess nutrient loading (particularly nitrogen and phosphorus), increased ocean acidity, rapid biodiversity loss, and other global trends suggest humanity is causing global ecological degradation and threatening ecosystem services that human societies depend on.[9][10][11] Because these environmental impacts are all directly related to human numbers, recent estimates of a sustainable human population often suggest substantially lower figures, between 2 and 4 billion.[12][13][14] Paul R. Ehrlich stated in 2018 that the optimum population is between 1.5 and 2 billion.[15] Geographer Chris Tucker estimates that 3 billion is a sustainable number, provided human societies rapidly deploy less harmful technologies and best management practices.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_population
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Point being, not only is it an issue that we can do nothing about, it’s also an issue that is already going away by itself. So the only thing really worth discussing at this time is how to deal with the fallout of that trend
andrewta@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Why do you think it’s controversial? I don’t see any comments that would imply that
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
The vote ratio
andrewta@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Wow. That’s interesting
BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Might be the unintelligible headline.
Literally just needed to day “peak number of 18 year olds” and, suddenly, wow! A real phrase that makes sense!
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Possibly. It seemed like an obvious play on peak oil to me, but I guess not everybody got it