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    11 months ago

    Are you suggesting that there’s no limit to how many people the resources we have available to us can support?

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      11 months ago

      Oh, there probably is. All things being equal (and that’s the important factor) there is next-to-no chance of us ever reaching such a bizarre amount of people - you could triple the amount of people on earth, and, all things being equal, we still wouldn’t be “overpopulated.”

      However, things are not equal - which means we are already existing way beyond that which our ecology can support. And it’s all thanks to capitalist parasites - a very small group of people sucking everything dry at the expense of everyone and everything else.

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          11 months ago

          What standard of living do you consider “all things being equal”?

          I don’t consider “standards of living” - period.

          I consider this.

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            11 months ago

            That’s literally an article about how they don’t have enough water. Yes, the rich are using twice as much as the poor and it would go further if it was distributed more evenly but the fact remains that there’s a finite amount that is not sustainable beyond a certain population.

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              11 months ago

              This…

              All things being equal (and that’s the important factor) there is next-to-no chance of us ever reaching such a bizarre amount of people

              …just went completely over your head, didn’t it?

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                No? The article says rich people are using 2x as much water as poor people - 50% vs 23% and they are already having water problems. Assuming the water consumption was evened out this leaves the population room to go up no more than 4x what it is now even with equal consumption. That’s hardly out of the realm of possibility considering the population already has gone up 8x since 1950