Like, where does this come from? Even people that aren’t particularly conservative seem to think that less people = good. Maybe the problem isn’t the amount of people but how their needs are met? Yes, the world is finite, but pretending that hunger, homelessness, wars and diseases are in anyway caused by the amount of people on Earth rather than how we deal with those things is as insane as denying climate change.
To clarify: I’m not in favour of malthusian solutions.
It’s true that the true problem is capitalism but let’s not pretend like infinite population growth is good either. Yes, we can fix world hunger even with 10 billion but what if we grow past that? And we need to take into account that even if we can feed ourselves, is there enough for other species? I don’t think that overpopulation is something we necessarily need to solve but I do think we need to stop thinking about population growth as something necessary, especially because in capitalism population growth is tied by the ruling class to economic growth.
Population growth is likely to slow or be virtually inexistent in a society where people are allowed to choose if they want children and how many they want.
it’s actually a sure thing. replacement birthrate is 2.1 kids. that’s simply not happening in a world where women are actually free.
True, that’s why I don’t don’t believe it’s the biggest problem we have