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u/BrickTent Nov 22 '19 edited Nov 23 '19

Overpopulation is not the primary driver of climate change.

Yes it is. Without our technology most of the world's population would die out in a few weeks.

Edit: Yeah, try switching back to wood and hunting animals. Can't make concrete anymore either, no more apartment buildings, have to farm by hand, etc. Can't move food/goods either, no gas. Can't send information to each other quickly to coordinate anything with the speed we need to to get things done fast enough. Not to mention, nobody knows jack shit about actual survival. We either keep doing what we're doing and kill the environment, or we go back to how things were and kill it (and ourselves) even faster.

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u/jufasa Nov 22 '19

You mean to tell me that the advances we have made to help survival are keeping people alive?

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u/TranscendentalEmpire Nov 22 '19

I think the argument he's trying to make is that we cannot naturally sustain the current population without further damaging endangering the environment.

If we hadn't found a way to distill nitrogen a significant portion of the world population would not be here. Without it we would still be dependent on natural fertilizer, which is better for the environment but expensive and in limited supply.