If you think about it: overpopulation doesn't exist. Humanity can harbour billions more people than exist today, a multitude of those, even! We have (*and already produce*) more food than would be needed to feed everyone many times over, yet people still go hungry. Additionally, current estimates see humanity's total population stabilize at ~11 billion.
The idea that there are simply too many people nowadays weirdly only came up the moment birth rates in western nations declined — **the idea of overpopulation is hence a racist myth**. It's a problem of distributing resources, not the amount of people that need or produce those resources!
We have enough food, wealth, and space for everyone, just a small sum of people (*billionaires*) hoard more than they need resulting in the poverty of the many. When the resources are distributed in a way that only a few get them, you wouldn't claim the problem is the amount of people, right?
For some reason, world hunger, poverty, etc. have always been around. The larger the population grows, the larger this system that distributes resources grows along with it. It's this system of distribution that's wrong and unfair. Simply saying “the people are at fault, we're all just greedy” is counter-productive, because it makes the problem seem unfixable, much rather it pretends as if the problem lies within human nature (*which isn't the truth*).
There's an economic system that distributes resources in the most unjust manner, the amount of people is irrelevant, and this problem is fixable, despite how incorrect the word “overpopulation” frames the issue.
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