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[-] fadingembers@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 6 months ago

I agree that we should replace the economic system, but overpopulation is a myth and depopulating is not actually necessary in our journey for sustainability.

https://www.cato.org/policy-report/november/december-2022/valuable-people-debunking-myth-overpopulation#:~:text=One%20of%20the%20most%20popular,human%20action%20and%20economic%20progress.

[-] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

First of all, it’s Brigham young university. Secondly, higher population doesn’t magically make more helium on the planet, or lithium, or the sand used in concrete, or petroleum, or other rare earths. All these things are finite. Some of these things are already in short supply now. How is adding 20 billlion more people gonna make finite and scare essential resources more abundant? Your link talks about availability of resources within a system where there is essentially limitless production- you can’t make batteries and solar cells and plastic and food and gas out of magic Mormon underpants, these are real exhaustible resources which are already being taxed. Maybe “god will provide” huh.

[-] Soggy@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

If we can reach asteroid mining that will solve a lot of scarcity issues.

[-] guacupado@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Who's upvoting this? You're not wrong, but that's a completely different conversation and moving the goalpost.

[-] Soggy@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

"...depopulating is not actually necessary in our journey for sustainability." Illustrating this point in the comment you replied to.

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