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[–] gens@programming.dev 3 points 12 minutes ago

Wrong in almost every way.

[–] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 4 points 20 minutes ago (1 children)

Over population is a problem just because we occupy 10% of the land doesn't mean we should double it to 20%? Do you know how much of the earths biosphere that would continue to chew into? Even if we farm more efficiently it doesn't mean there should be more of us shitting around

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 points 9 minutes ago

It's also just wrong, humans use half of all habitable land for agriculture alone. Unless everybody moves to Antarctica doubling it would result in destroying literally all of nature.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 points 10 minutes ago

Overpopulation is not a myth. 36% of the earth's mammalian biomass is Humans, only 5% is wild mammals. 71% of avian life is livestock. https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammals-birds-biomass

Half of all "habitable land" (which includes everything except deserts, tundra, salt flats, beaches, or exposed rock) is used for agriculture. Half of all land, for agriculture. https://www.weforum.org/stories/2019/12/agriculture-habitable-land/

Industrial farming is not sustainable at the current rate and relies on either mined or petrochemical derived ammonia which supplies the nitrogen necessary for protein. Synthetic Ammonia alone feeds half the world population and requires an additional 2% of the world's power to produce.

The global ecoystem is in rapid decline.

I gave up finding appropriate sources halfway when I realized this post will just get removed eventually.

[–] GimmeUrBelt@lemmy.today 10 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

This isn't a fucking meme.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 3 points 23 minutes ago

It's just blatant disinformation.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 2 points 38 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 1 points 20 minutes ago

A meme is a self replicating idea. I think this is a meme.

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 0 points 22 minutes ago

I'm not an ecofascist. But if I were an ecofascist, I'd be applying some social darwinist population analysis to this whole overpopulation problem. I mean, let's look at the facts: white people consume way more resources per capita than black, new world indigenous, asian, and middle eastern people. It's not even close. If you're committing a genocide to save the environment, you have to kill like ten congonese people to get the same benefit as killing one white american. So purely as a matter of efficiency, if we're doing ecofascism I really think we should kill all white people.

But again, I am not an ecofascist, and I think we can solve all of this with no genocide if we simply ban cars and planes outside of emergencies.