• @chakan2
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    -181 year ago

    He’s not entirely wrong…we’re due for a population correction of some sort.

      • ares35
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        -121 year ago

        yup. we’re overdue for an epic world war to cull the numbers a bit.

        • AggressivelyPassive
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          111 year ago

          That’s exactly not my point. Population will naturally peak within the next decades and then probably settle around 10 billion. That’s just 20% more than the current numbers.

          None of the scarcities we’re having right now are “real”. As long as 60% of agricultural land in industrialized countries is used to produce animal fodder, there’s enough food for everyone.

          • @Kill_John_Lennon
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            21 year ago

            Just because it’s going to plateau and decrease, doesn’t necessarily mean that we aren’t already above where we should ideally be. Being potentially able to feed everyone is not the only criteria. We are overconsuming and this is in proportion to the world population. Even though it’s not evenly spread and everyone doesn’t consume the same, at the end of the day the least people there are the least we consume.

            • AggressivelyPassive
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              11 year ago

              We don’t “consume” that much. Actually, the only thing we actually consume is uranium, everything else is just transformed and could be recycled. Sure, there are problems, but you’re basically advocating for auto-holocaust.

              • @[email protected]
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                21 year ago

                Actually, the only thing we actually consume is uranium

                Don’t forget helium! Once that shit’s pumped from the earth’s crust and released into the atmosphere, there’s practically no getting it back!

              • @Kill_John_Lennon
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                11 year ago

                We could be recycling everything but we’re not, and we’re not going to anytime soon, this would be far more complex than feeding everyone. I’m not advocating for anything, please don’t try to put words in my mouth. We’d have less trouble if there happened to be less of us, that’s it. I never said we should forcibly reduce our population, that’s ridiculous. I’m just tired of seeing this same senseless argument that everything is fine with the population because we could potentially feed everyone.

    • @afraid_of_zombies
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      31 year ago

      We aren’t due for anything. This is the gamblers fallacy. No one is sitting there and keeping track ready to swoop in and decimate the population.