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by astrange 904 days ago
> Climate change, ecocide, many if not most international conflicts, the housing crisis, fossil fuel consumption, and countless other issues are simply proportional to the number of humans on the planet.

Totally false, CO2 emissions coming from the US have fallen as the population has risen. No, that's not because of offshoring.

These things are caused by economic structure and government policy (independent of population) and technology efficiency (which gets better with more people, not worse). Examples being whether or not you're allowed to build apartments or beef is subsidized.
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p-e-w 904 days ago
> Totally false, CO2 emissions coming from the US have fallen as the population has risen.

That doesn't change the fact that all else being equal, half as many people emit half the amount of CO2.

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astrange 904 days ago
All else is not equal and can't be.

You're going to kill half the country and keep average household size, age, income structure and ability to build nuclear power plants the same?

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