In light of new data showing China's population shrinking for the second year running, a Shanghai-based think tank has drastically changed its 2100 forecast.
The problem is that the amount of population doesn’t match the way we live. You could create any ideal society and say that overpopulation isn’t the issue, or create an underpopulated society and say the way we live isn’t the issue.
You’re saying “we just need to fix the biggest issues of our society in in order for overpopulation to be a non-issue, easy!”
I’m saying we would screw up the earth even if we literally had 1/2 the people. By just dumping even more in the ocean and being even less responsible.
We have an absolute abundance of resources and energy and somehow (oil lobby) we manage to be so inefficient that we will never improve that efficiency unless absolutely needed.
If we had half the humans we would waste twice as much.
Energy isn’t our only limited resource.
A few top% people in the world (mostly western countries) are responsible for the majority of emissions
We throw away a billion more times food than we really consume too. And we just dump everything we don’t like into the ocean
Everything is a distribution problem, not an availability problem.
The problem is that the amount of population doesn’t match the way we live. You could create any ideal society and say that overpopulation isn’t the issue, or create an underpopulated society and say the way we live isn’t the issue.
You’re saying “we just need to fix the biggest issues of our society in in order for overpopulation to be a non-issue, easy!”
I’m saying we would screw up the earth even if we literally had 1/2 the people. By just dumping even more in the ocean and being even less responsible.
We have an absolute abundance of resources and energy and somehow (oil lobby) we manage to be so inefficient that we will never improve that efficiency unless absolutely needed.
If we had half the humans we would waste twice as much.