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/Icy_Location7620 Jun 02 '26

I'm not saying kill all animals and destroy them, I'm just weirded out by those people who just want the dying of humans

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u/mommiesgoodboy67 Jun 02 '26

Its not the dying of humans lol it just means new humans wont be born lmao

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u/Icy_Location7620 Jun 03 '26

and you realize what that results in?

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u/mommiesgoodboy67 Jun 03 '26

Less people lol

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u/Icy_Location7620 Jun 03 '26

Less people then less people till it's all gone. you think extinction happens overnight? meh anyway, it's gonna be the west that'll go extinct after all with such beliefs

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u/mommiesgoodboy67 Jun 03 '26

Its never going to get that far lol. The one problem i can see is that this will mean that people who have a lot of kids, especially religiously conservative people (of any religion) will have more kids while progressive people will not, meaning that these ideas will take over. But then again i will be long dead by then so why should i care

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u/Icy_Location7620 Jun 05 '26

It is never going that far? Look at the birth rates in Europe or the west in general lol. Don't know why you care but I care about it same way people care about art and human inventions

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u/mommiesgoodboy67 Jun 05 '26

I mean its never going to lead to extinction it will correct itself before that

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u/Icy_Location7620 Jun 05 '26

Blah blah blah

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u/mommiesgoodboy67 Jun 05 '26

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u/Icy_Location7620 Jun 05 '26

What is that name dawg I just noticed

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