I love the doublethink some people have of “capitalism can’t grow infinitely” and “population can grow infinitely”. It’s one or the other. The earth has a carrying capacity for whatever standard of living you want to choose and we’re probably well over it for what anyone posting here would consider acceptable. Either population has to decline or standards of living have to decline for people in the imperial core for us to achieve a sustainable and equitably distributed standard of living globally.
I do not understand why some people would prefer having 10 billion subsistence farmers instead of 500 million people living comfortably.
I recognize I’m talking past the tweet somewhat because in my experience it is largely just a strawman. There is a flavor of leftists that cannot see the phrase ‘global overpopulation’ without immediately strawmanning eugenicist genocide as the envisioned solution. The actual ethno-fascists are almost all natalist now, get with the program.
I love the doublethink some people have of “capitalism can’t grow infinitely” and “population can grow infinitely”. It’s one or the other. The earth has a carrying capacity for whatever standard of living you want to choose and we’re probably well over it for what anyone posting here would consider acceptable. Either population has to decline or standards of living have to decline for people in the imperial core for us to achieve a sustainable and equitably distributed standard of living globally.
I do not understand why some people would prefer having 10 billion subsistence farmers instead of 500 million people living comfortably.
I recognize I’m talking past the tweet somewhat because in my experience it is largely just a strawman. There is a flavor of leftists that cannot see the phrase ‘global overpopulation’ without immediately strawmanning eugenicist genocide as the envisioned solution. The actual ethno-fascists are almost all natalist now, get with the program.