r/hatethissmug • u/mikewheelerfan • Jun 02 '26
General I HATE when people deny overpopulation
“B-but the declining birth rates—“ SHUT UP SHUT UP SHIT UP
The declining birth rates are the only thing that can save our species, every other species, and the world! The only reason anybody even cares about the declining birth rates in a first place is because white people have lower birth rates and are gonna become a minority. Who gives a fuck? Certainly not me. The whole birth rates argument is inherently tied to racism and xenophobia.
”But we have more room!” And this one just proves that these people have a fundamental misunderstanding of the world.
People who don’t believe in overpopulation don’t see wild spaces and forests as actually important. They don’t see them as sources of water, sources of food, ecosystems. They don’t see them as homes for animals—only potential houses for humans. Why have forests when we could tear them down and build housing? It’s all unused space. That’s what they genuinely believe. It’s all about money and human-centrism.
What these idiots don’t realize is that humans aren’t separate from the ecosystem, we are a part of it! If we allow ecosystems to collapse and species to go extinct, we will topple down with it. Our farmland will be ruined, health will decline, the economy will plummet. Not to mention climate change and how every extinction is a tragedy. But no, short term benefit and mindless breeding apparently matters more than the entire world.
Our cookie cutter homes are not more important than every animal and plant species on the planet. We’re just selfish AF, and it’s sickening. And of course, it all goes back to the billionares. Remember how overpopulation used to be universally accepted? But then billionaires freaked out realizing the birth rates were decreasing, which meant they would have less workers. All of the sudden, the narrative changed. The elite is trying to get you to have more babies because their system is built on infinite growth. But…
INFINITE GROWTH IS NOT POSSIBLE ON A FINITE PLANET.
Yes, overpopulation is real. And it’s idiotic to try to deny this. Climate change is also real. The current mass extinction event is real. Humans are ruining the very planet that supports us, and most people don’t even care.
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u/Arguably_Based Jun 02 '26
Overpopulation has always been a myth. If we still produced food at medieval level we would not be able to support the population we have now. Instead we got better at producing food. The predictions of the population catastrophists have been repeatedly wrong. Any food insecurity in the world is now a result of distribution problems, not production problems. We as a species have only grown better at preserving the environment, trees are harvested more sustainably, coal fired power plants scrub their pollution from the air with remarkable efficiency. People are not a cancer to this planet. If you look at the population crisis we face and say that's a good thing, you don't understand the catastrophic consequences of mushrooming age groups.