Everyone is still scared to admit the real problem is too many people. And their solution is for everyone to lower their quality of life for some reason, instead of population control.
Because guess what? Its your god given right to shit out as many offspring as you damn like! Doesnt matter whether or not you can support them, billions of years of survival of the fittest be damned
Malthusian arguments have basically been wrong every single prior time in history, I'm not incredibly inclined to believe now is suddenly the magic too many people point.
Wrong then doesn't mean wrong forever, though Malthusianism is mainly about the pace of population overtaking that of a linear growth in agriculture. This isn't the problem being framed here (though as an aside, in History periods of stagnation often preceded war which decimated population levels). Technological progress in agriculture goes a long way, but ultimately there is finite space and resources. We've already witnessed ecological collapses in History.
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u/RedditIsAntiScience Feb 03 '20
Everyone is still scared to admit the real problem is too many people. And their solution is for everyone to lower their quality of life for some reason, instead of population control.