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by ecf 2100 days ago
How much would the human population need to contract in order to provide everyone with the same wasteful quality-of-life that the average citizen from a western industrialized nation has?
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citation for why you believe it's a problem of population rather than a political problem of resource distribution?
>in order to provide everyone with the same wasteful quality-of-life that the average citizen from a western industrialized nation has?

For people in some places around the world a pair of shoes and 3 meals a day can be called a luxury.