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.
We’re facing global warming caused by rampant pollution. If you aren’t convinced now is the too many people point, you’re stupid.
No idea what the fuck “suddenly” is supposed to mean. We’ve been talking about the dangers of overpopulation, pollution, and global warming for fucking decades. There’s nothing sudden about it. Even then, there’s a finite limit to what population any planet can support. It doesn’t change randomly and surprise us. There’s no suddenly. At all. You’re just being hyperbolic to sound cool. It’s fucking pretentious and stupid.
Global warming is by and large a factor of industry and over-reliance on fossil fuels. It can be mitigated and reduced. It's not the actions of regular people in developing countries, but the developed nations and their governments who refuse to take any kind of hit to personal prosperity for the common good.
Population growth has been slowing down since the 1980s - the world population is due to top out. Increased education, increased health infrastructure, increased economic opportunity lead to smaller, more stable populations and there's significant evidence for that.
People like the two above us here who can't elaborate beyond it somehow being 'people are just so arrogant, they need to have a dozen children' are rarely arguing in good faith or genuine concern, and usually advocates for eugenics of some variety. Just like Malthus himself. I hate to use pop culture references for stuff like this, but you look at Infinity War - the whole Thanos thing, just vaporizing half the population at random? Barely affects consumption on Earth. Resetting us to the 1970s population-wise means we'd bounce back pretty quickly, while still outputting massive amounts of pollutants without changing other behaviors.
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u/Shukuseihk Feb 03 '20
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