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Absolutely. In fact, I'd argue that capitalism is the biggest contributing cause of uncontrolled population growth as the system is predicated on perpetual growth- that's why everyone is freaking out about diminishing nativity statistics, we don't need more people, it's the machine that demands quarterly flesh to keep it from imploding.
What the fuck even is that sentence. Regardless, more than one thing can be a problem at the same time, and more than one solution available.
'Overpopulation' when coercive power exists is just using climate crisis as an excuse for genocide, and genocide as an excuse to fix nothing.
It's not a problem that can be addressed, genuinely, or is safe to consider, until we're starting to get diminishing returns on everything else.
You're presuming that any measure to control population growth by necessity ends with genocide, which is an untenable proposition. This whole thread spawned from a discussion about China's one-child policy, which is a direct counterexample to that claim, as it did not lead to genocide.
Read what I said. Clauses and all.
As-is I don't know who you're responding to.