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[–] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

All the Neo-Malthusian BS in this thread, holy crap. The "overpopulation is the problem" has got to be one of the best ways for governments, corpos, and the rich to deflect attention from their failures and excesses. Hands down even better than the "personal carbon footprint" propaganda.

  • earth has a resource distribution/use efficiency issues right now; the rich are greedy and wasteful.

  • don't want to have kids? Fine, don't! Kids deserve parents that want them, and you deserve your autonomy to live your life as more than a means to an end for demographics.

  • if governments addressed the resource hoarding and waste, more people who want to have kids would have them because they would have enough to have a good quality of life and standard of living, and we would also have addressed things like climate change and dystopic corpo control.