• platypus_plumba@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    The problem is that the amount of population doesn’t match the way we live. You could create any ideal society and say that overpopulation isn’t the issue, or create an underpopulated society and say the way we live isn’t the issue.

    You’re saying “we just need to fix the biggest issues of our society in in order for overpopulation to be a non-issue, easy!”

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      9 months ago

      I’m saying we would screw up the earth even if we literally had 1/2 the people. By just dumping even more in the ocean and being even less responsible.

      We have an absolute abundance of resources and energy and somehow (oil lobby) we manage to be so inefficient that we will never improve that efficiency unless absolutely needed.

      If we had half the humans we would waste twice as much.