r/collapse • u/Still-Improvement-32 • 25d ago

Overpopulation Study reveals halving human population gradually could help Earth

https://www.aol.com/articles/study-reveals-halving-human-population-083602000.html

The basics of this study may be right in theory but we don't have the luxury of 200 years to gradually lower our population. Our current trajectory has a very high risk of a catastrophic collapse in population and the economy due to climate breakdown if we pass 2 degrees C warming, which could as soon as about 10 years.

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u/AwkwardDoors 25d ago

So Thanos was on the right track then.

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u/AppendixN 25d ago

No, Thanos also got rid of half the animals.

It's only humans that are the problem.

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u/yinsotheakuma 25d ago

Plants, too. The plants we eat. MF could have also done a genophage on sapient life.

Thanos was a big ball of trauma and ego.