• BallsandBayonets@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Overpopulation as a dogwhistle for racism is a conservative myth.

      Overpopulation in a “I’d rather not turn Earth into Coruscant and so many of our climate and food/water issues would be easier to deal with if the global birth rate slowed voluntarily” is not.

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        Overpopulation as a dogwhistle for racism is a conservative right-wing myth.

        FTFY.

        I’d rather not turn Earth into Coruscant

        Sooo… when will you actually be rejecting this right-wing myth?

        Soon, I hope?

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        We don’t need to make nearly this much trash; it’s just more profitable for shareholders. Not denying that some plastics are essential for medicine though.

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        We can handle feeding everybody, we can’t handle the trash capitalist parasitism.

        FTFY.

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      The fear of overpopulation, of the poors overbreeding and overcrowding the rich is basically a given in all political elites. Basically part of the washington consensus.

      Our current, below replacement birthrate, no matter how much they try to hide it, is not an accident.