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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Let's be fair, 9 billion of people living on Earth is already just too much and we are projected to peak at 11 billion apparently.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

Oh no, not this again... There's enough food for everyone and we throw most of it away. Farming can be improved, and we also need to change our diets and how we distribute food. Water is equally abundant, but we can't have huge cities in the desert. That sort of stuff.

Calling people existing a problem is itself problematic. It's a step on the way to socially pressure or outright forbid people from having children, which makes existing power dynamics super creepy. Like, you think the rich and powerful will ever be denied this right? It's always some nebulous other or people generally who should stop existing or having babies. Dystopian rhetoric if you ask me. The road to eugenics, fascism, genocide is paved with green liberals concerned about overpopulation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It is definitely true that by lowering the amount of food waste (like food retail companies letting their employees bring almost expired food home to consume etc etc). I just unfortunately assume that we won't really improve in this food waste area.

Eugenics and genocide in the name of overpopulation could theoretically go into power (or comeback with eugenics), although I think the chance of that happening will be low, atleast in countries like Europe and north american countries, but your point is understandable.

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