Comment Overpopulation (Score 2) 300
We have been hearing about overpopulation and especially the term "overshoot" since the Club of Rome report in 1970, which presumably follows on from earlier. Governments and industrialists were worried about rising population. Now either this is a real, actual problem, Or it's not. I don't really see how you can go from a population of say 500 million on through industrialization to a population of over 8 billion, heading for possibly 9 or 10 billion, and not know whether this is okay or not. Either overpopulation, i.e. there being 20 times more people on the planet than the planet can support is a real thing or it's not.
By all means, all these other initiatives and projects and memes around being green and being caring for the environment and reducing the amount of plastic bags you use, and increasing recycling, and cutting a bit here, and maybe flying a bit less, and maybe changing your car from a petrol one to an electric one, etc. Maybe all of that is all very well.
But if the population is 20 times what it should be, and has already been 20 times what it should be, for decades, then we're well, well past the limits of growth. We're well, well past the overshoot.
Either that's real or it's not. Either the overpopulation thing is real or it's not. It's that simple.