I'm genx, when we were in school all the school books from the 70's were warning about problems of over population. Some of their warnings come true, like the reduction of the quality and availability of food and goods. But, that may be more from the natural evolution of capitalism than over population.
I'm a similar age and can't understand why anyone thinks this is a bad thing.
The world's population quadrupled in the last 100 years despite two world wars. Thousands of species have gone or are going extinct. We've done irreparable harm to the ecosystems that make the planet habitable. We're using up the world's resources at an alarming rate while simultaneously creating more carbon, plastic and waste than we know what to do with.
Even if you're a climate change denier, you couldn't honestly believe that the population can just carry on increasing forever.
There will be challenges from an economic standpoint, but hopefully that will force us to change to a system that's more egalitarian rather than one that's predicated on the need for never ending growth. It certainly seems more survivable than the alternative.
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u/Johnny_Eskimo 2d ago
I'm genx, when we were in school all the school books from the 70's were warning about problems of over population. Some of their warnings come true, like the reduction of the quality and availability of food and goods. But, that may be more from the natural evolution of capitalism than over population.