Not really, no. It’s not so much overpopulation straining resources as it’s a hundred billionaires already owning almost everything and expecting to further profit in order to hoard even more life-sustaining resources already fenced in by artificial scarcity.
But I think sterilization is more ethical
Don’t give them any ideas. Doing it voluntarily is usually a good choice, but fascists are famously not averse to forced sterilization of anyone they deem in any way “abnormal”…
Yep, we throw away, as USAsians… what, 40% of our food, with our insane JIT logistics/business model?
Uh yeah turns out globalized JIT is a highly efficient paradigm, in the sense of maximizing profits…
… But it is also extremely wasteful, fragile and shatters easily… the Trump tariffs and surrounding uncertainty, and mass destruction of the hierarchically lowest, but also most essential, foundational rung of the food production system, migrant labor…
That’s basically just swinging at the knees of this paradigm with sledge hammers.
Well, that is a fact: there are too many children.
But I think sterilization is more ethical than killing them.
Not really, no. It’s not so much overpopulation straining resources as it’s a hundred billionaires already owning almost everything and expecting to further profit in order to hoard even more life-sustaining resources already fenced in by artificial scarcity.
Don’t give them any ideas. Doing it voluntarily is usually a good choice, but fascists are famously not averse to forced sterilization of anyone they deem in any way “abnormal”…
Yep, we throw away, as USAsians… what, 40% of our food, with our insane JIT logistics/business model?
Uh yeah turns out globalized JIT is a highly efficient paradigm, in the sense of maximizing profits…
… But it is also extremely wasteful, fragile and shatters easily… the Trump tariffs and surrounding uncertainty, and mass destruction of the hierarchically lowest, but also most essential, foundational rung of the food production system, migrant labor…
That’s basically just swinging at the knees of this paradigm with sledge hammers.
No, there are not enough children
The rate of population growth has fallen considerably and in developed countries the population would be shrinking if it wasn’t for immigration.
Immigration is only a short term solution as developing countries will eventually have low birth rates as well.
Population shrinking is a good thing, but unfortunately it is not happening everywhere
It will overtime as people become educated and build careers instead of having kids
The population can’t keep growing indefinitely, the planet can’t sustain that.
It very bad when the population drops in a short timeframe. (such as a century)
Public infrastructure works better with lots of people.