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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (3 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] 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 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] 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

'I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or broiled.'

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There's always too many people when you ask a person like this about the population, but never enough people when you ask the same person the same question but include skin color in the question. F everyone who whines about population.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Please tell me why everyone is so concerned about declining birth rates*. Please.
*Without mentioning industry

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because it means there will be a larger burden on (smaller) younger generations to look after the aging ones.

Instead of 6 kids and 30 grandkids, you maybe have 2 kids and 1 grandkid, if you're lucky.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

as a society there's more than enough to take care of a disproportionate amount of "non-workers" but instead we make up fake bullshit jobs and force people to work 40 hour weeks so a tiny fraction of us can send their second plane to pick up their girlfriend to go on a date in Italy

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They're concerned about "their" people, because it's declining only in rich countries and those tend to see themselves as "better" and don"t like "unregulated immigration" (while the regulated one costs shit tons of money). Also those who bring thst up are usually right-wingers.

Or to say it bluntly: Xenophobia and racism.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

it's declining only in rich countries

Yeah that's not true at all lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Because we're anxious about our investments in soylent green.