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this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2024
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Admin Removed Post Overshoot: Cognitive obsolescence and the population conundrum [PDF] reason: promotes eugenics
which also got me a 3-day site wide ban for "promoting eugenics" which is no longer showing up since expired.
In general admins can of course remove users and communities for reasonable reasons, but editor decisions on communitity content (even those I don't feel strong about) are strange.
We need to start distributing resources more effectively, not culling people. The majority of the human population consumes very little.
When people talk about overpopulation they always want to get rid of people other than the ones in their own home country, strangely. When the advocates for such policies are in first world nations that consume considerably more than the people they want to get rid of.
Let me ask you this: if you believe the earth has exceeded its carrying capacity, wouldn't your conclusion be to start getting rid of people or halting their reproduction? That's textbook eugenics...
Seriously. I don't really enjoy people that decide the world is so fucked that the only option is to end specific populations.
The entire population of the planet could fit in a space similar in size to Rhode Island and be fed by a chunk of land as large as New York but math can be used to make all kinds of statements that are only useful in theory.
We have who we have and logistics need to be figured out for including them not shoveling them off to the pasture. However we can still educate people that quickly raising the population further is a dangerous game but population growth is happening in nations that aren't taking the resources.