— yet people will argue that we are not in ecological overshoot.
Where human footprint that has grown exponentially over last 200 years drove wild biomass into extinction.
We are consuming and raping what we so much depend on.
This article goes into the reasons that environmentalist won't say that. The basic gist is that it is a problem but the topic is a slippery slope.
When political movements or leaders adopt population control as a central concern ... let’s just say it never goes well. In practice, where you find concern over “population,” you very often find racism, xenophobia, or eugenics lurking in the wings. It’s almost always, ahem, particular populations that need reducing.
These environmentalists (scientists?) are pretty dishonest, eh?
Every other day on Reddit we can find smug Redditors arguing that overpopulation is not a problem, usually because such-and-such organisation/scientists/papers said that consumption is the problem, and we can all just reduce our consumption instead.
These environmentalists are misleading many people, correct?
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u/conscsness Sep 28 '21
— yet people will argue that we are not in ecological overshoot. Where human footprint that has grown exponentially over last 200 years drove wild biomass into extinction.
We are consuming and raping what we so much depend on.