Basically, the population is predicted to naturally decrease, any active efforts to reduce the population is not only unnecessary but will be plagued by questions about racism, eugenics, and social justice.
Then, the belief that there are too many people shifts the blame from the ones responsible of our unsustainability to the common folk. It will redirect efforts to build a sustainable society to reducing population. But we were unsustainable even with a tiny fraction of our population. It’s now how many we are, but how sustainably we behave.
For the population link, the arguments make no sense to me. Population growth is slowing, but is still going up. There is not enough resources to support 9 billion people unless most of them live at a low level. There is more then just energy included in ‘resources’ so no amount of solar power fixes the issue long term currently.
Population growth is slowing, but is still going up
Look at the population pyramids of the US, Europe, China, India. Population’s reaching the peak. Only Africa is not yet at its peak, probably for economic reasons.
There is not enough resources to support 9 billion people unless most of them live at a low level.
My turn to play the [citation needed] card :^)
There is more then just energy included in ‘resources’ so no amount of solar power fixes the issue long term currently.
Sustainability and renewables also mean resources being dug up stay in the loop and can be recycled. There’s no physical reason not to be able to reuse a lot of the resources we need.
https://overshoot.footprintnetwork.org/content/uploads/2022/03/How_many_Earths_2022_EN_sm.jpg
Feel free to look at the sources and data.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_overpopulation#Criticism
Basically, the population is predicted to naturally decrease, any active efforts to reduce the population is not only unnecessary but will be plagued by questions about racism, eugenics, and social justice.
Then, the belief that there are too many people shifts the blame from the ones responsible of our unsustainability to the common folk. It will redirect efforts to build a sustainable society to reducing population. But we were unsustainable even with a tiny fraction of our population. It’s now how many we are, but how sustainably we behave.
For the population link, the arguments make no sense to me. Population growth is slowing, but is still going up. There is not enough resources to support 9 billion people unless most of them live at a low level. There is more then just energy included in ‘resources’ so no amount of solar power fixes the issue long term currently.
Look at the population pyramids of the US, Europe, China, India. Population’s reaching the peak. Only Africa is not yet at its peak, probably for economic reasons.
My turn to play the [citation needed] card :^)
Sustainability and renewables also mean resources being dug up stay in the loop and can be recycled. There’s no physical reason not to be able to reuse a lot of the resources we need.