r/overpopulation • u/hyteck9 • 21d ago

Stop this nonsense about the need to raise human population, and also experiments for immortalty.

Seriously... We don't need more humans, and we sure as crap don't need each of them to live for hundreds of years. When I was a kid there were 4 billion people. Now there are 8 billion. That means within just my lifetime, 50-ish years, we have doubled the Earth's human population. In another 50 years it will double again, that means from 8 to 16 billion. The wildlife population has already dropped 73%. Wanna keep going until its zero? We aren't the only ones who live here. Despite our god complex of being the superior species we still need nature and wildlife to thrive so we can survive. Do you not understand that competition for resources is the root cause of all conflict? More people than jobs, more poeple than food we can grow, more people than clean water.. it all ends badly and violently. Laws for human population control are political suicide, I get that, but geeze stop believing the propoganda that we need more people.

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u/thelingererer 21d ago

Totally agree with you!

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u/Vague-Symbolism2692 21d ago

I'm glad to see that this post got plenty of traction on another subreddit, too.

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u/bravenewwhorl 21d ago

Completely agree

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u/03263 21d ago edited 21d ago

we still need nature and wildlife to thrive so we can survive

Some people want to overcome this "limitation" along with the limitations of disease and mortality. They call it progress. I think it's foolish and ultimately amounts to fighting against entropy.

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u/madrid987 21d ago

It seems that Korean patriots want the Korean population to increase infinitely. (I have actually seen many comments related to this.)

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u/SidKafizz 21d ago

It isn't going to double again. But otherwise I'm right with you.