| >The government took out debt in your name, to be paid back by future generations that you aren't helping to create... it's borderline fraud. I already paid back more in taxes than I've ever gotten from the state in education. And since I don't have children I pay more taxes, making up for it more quickly. Children would create future resource consumers that cause damage not only to my country, but to all human and animal life on this planet. >A crazy doomsday hippy wrote a book with an unsupportable, unsubstantiated crackpot theory in 1968, and now you believe this concept that never existed and is pretty meaningless. If you're post fact there's no purpose discussing anything with you, because you won't accept reason. >What is the cutoff population number after which is overpopulation? Overpopulation is any population that utilizes more resource in a year than what is regenerated by mother earth in a year. I.e. earth overshoot day moving past December. >Did you know that in the 1980s the UK's population crashed and only a few roving cannibals still lived there? Ok now you've really stopped making sense. >This is bad math. You need to hug pretty close to replacement fertility (2.1 kids), but you don't need growth. Not according to our politicians, who need an ever growing tax base to keep up social systems that are not sustainably set up. Mostly because the first generation didn't pay in, but took out massive amounts. |
Paul Erlich. The asshole that reinvented Malthus for the hippy age. The Population Bomb, 1968. It's on archive.org.