I don’t necessarily disagree, and I definitely don’t think we should keep increasing the population without limits. But rather than jumping to extreme solutions like limiting births or promoting depopulation, we should first rethink how we structure housing, family systems, and resource distribution. Right now, we’re trying to fit humanity into an economic system that prioritizes profit and hoarding over sustainability and well-being.
The truth is, we could support the current population, and likely even more, using far less land and fewer resources if society wasn’t organized around individualism and competition. According to the UN, a third of the food produced globally is wasted, and the wealthiest 10 percent are responsible for nearly half of global emissions. The issue isn’t raw population numbers, it’s how resources are controlled and distributed.
As you pointed out, there is a vested interest in keeping people convinced that scarcity is natural and that we’re all to blame just for existing. Media narratives often push this idea, especially through social platforms, that subtly frame nihilism and depopulation as common sense. Meanwhile, the wealthiest few continue to hoard not just wealth but the power to shape public discourse.
The idea that we’ll have more if there are fewer people serves only those who already have the most. It diverts our frustration away from the structures of exploitation and toward each other. We should be asking why we’re being told to stifle nature and make do with less while billionaires accumulate enough to support entire nations.
The fact that people think promoting depopulation is extreme is part of the problem. There is obviously a limit to the population we can reasonably support (we call this carrying capacity in biology) and whether you think it’s now or later, at some point we have to stop growing the population. Unlimited population growth is literally impossible.
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The idea that we’ll have more if there are fewer people serves only those who already have the most.
And this is the opposite of true. The oligarchs want more bodies to feed the pyramid scheme that is capitalism.
I don’t necessarily disagree, and I definitely don’t think we should keep increasing the population without limits. But rather than jumping to extreme solutions like limiting births or promoting depopulation, we should first rethink how we structure housing, family systems, and resource distribution. Right now, we’re trying to fit humanity into an economic system that prioritizes profit and hoarding over sustainability and well-being.
The truth is, we could support the current population, and likely even more, using far less land and fewer resources if society wasn’t organized around individualism and competition. According to the UN, a third of the food produced globally is wasted, and the wealthiest 10 percent are responsible for nearly half of global emissions. The issue isn’t raw population numbers, it’s how resources are controlled and distributed.
As you pointed out, there is a vested interest in keeping people convinced that scarcity is natural and that we’re all to blame just for existing. Media narratives often push this idea, especially through social platforms, that subtly frame nihilism and depopulation as common sense. Meanwhile, the wealthiest few continue to hoard not just wealth but the power to shape public discourse.
The idea that we’ll have more if there are fewer people serves only those who already have the most. It diverts our frustration away from the structures of exploitation and toward each other. We should be asking why we’re being told to stifle nature and make do with less while billionaires accumulate enough to support entire nations.
The fact that people think promoting depopulation is extreme is part of the problem. There is obviously a limit to the population we can reasonably support (we call this carrying capacity in biology) and whether you think it’s now or later, at some point we have to stop growing the population. Unlimited population growth is literally impossible.
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And this is the opposite of true. The oligarchs want more bodies to feed the pyramid scheme that is capitalism.
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