#Overpopulation

Darren Fowerdarrenfower
2025-06-28

🏘️📈 Peterborough City Council estimates that there are around 2,500 HMOs within the city as of May 2025. This is a significant increase from 1,410 in 2011❗

Darren Fowerdarrenfower
2025-06-28

🚣🏿 Farage says Reform will cut cost of migration to ZERO!

🛂 948,000 people came to the UK in 2024❗

🚣🏽‍♂️ 38,000 arrivals came on small boats, in the year ending March 2025, up 22% on the previous year❗

2025-06-12

Overpopulation – The Human Explosion Explained

tube.blueben.net/w/8x1K3X8vcgV

2025-06-09

I saw an article claiming that the human population will drop to 100 million because of AI. But the professor in the article is actually talking about how expensive childcare is. The population isn’t dropping because of AI. It’s dropping because the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.

#childcare #parenting #education #parents #population #worldpopulationday #overpopulation #familyplanning #demographiccrisis #NotBecauseOfAI #ai

2025-06-07

Billions of people on Earth may be undercounted, Finnish university researchers claim. New study suggests rural populations are seriously misrepresented in national censuses.
news-cafe.eu/?go=news&n=13678
#population #china #brazil #overpopulation #research #science #earth

Entité terrestre auto-critiques4mdf0o1@piaille.fr
2025-06-05

Dans le même esprit, je le rappelle :
celui-ci :
"The Fence"
#Nature #Zoo #Overpopulation

866 #ClimateMyths #OverPopulation

One of the most persistant myths about the survival of humanity is that of the overpopulation. The planet can not feed us all.
THIS IS NOT TRUE
Sure enough, humans as a species are quite dominating in the ecosphere. But the hunger is due to a more egocentric and horrifying reason: what 'we' eat and how 'we'distribute the food is the real culprit.
Not a wonder I got a agrivated reaction on a vegeburger video, by an American [US}.
Over population is an age old escuse to carry on as usual, to 'Eat my burger without the worry'.
This is very 'rich' coming from the richest [and fattest] country that became that way by exploiting their 'own' country and that of others. Sure you don't want to worry...

Please stop commenting with these cheap and very outdated claims on the climate.
I don't mind opposite comments at all, but do take care of validity of your arguments.

"The overpopulation myth, debunked by a data scientist | Hannah Ritchie" [7:23 min]
by Big Think

youtube.com/watch?v=xrbyI-Cuze

Quote by BT:
" Jul 12, 2024
About the video: Is human overpopulation alarmist hype with disturbing consequences? Oxford data scientist Hannah Ritchie debunks the overpopulation myth.
A widespread concern with overpopulation became prominent in the 1960s and the 1970s, when scholars wondered how we could produce enough food for a rapidly growing global population. Brought to the fore with the publication of the book, "The Population Bomb," by Paul R. Ehrlich in 1968, it seemed that the only way to solve this problem was to discourage people from having more children.
This concern hinged on the assumption that the world population would continue to grow exponentially, but it hasn't. While the global population is still growing, in fact it's growing at a much slower rate, as global population growth rates peaked decades ago and have halved since then.
So is this concern completely unfounded? What can future population projections tell us? Data scientist Hannah Ritchie explains why."

00:00: The overpopulation concern
02:01: Global population growth rates
02:28: The fall in global fertility rates
03:06: Amount of food produced per person
03:50: Per capita CO2 emissions
04:17: The underpopulation concern

#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside
#StopThePlunder #StopRapingNature
#ClimateBreakDown

@df

That piece on ethics of immigration was an interesting read. I was going to post some thoughts there, but they ended up long, so I'll post them here instead:

In a finite world, this gets inevitably tangled in the politics of reproduction and overpopulation. Some seek to tactically out-reproduce as a way of politically dominating, or to fear that others will, but even more basically, if we ignore such factions and stick to sheer numbers: We can be fruitful and multiply only to a point in a finite world. At some point, multiplying isn't fruitful but exhausts all fruit.

And so when people move around in a sparse world, there there may be more capacity to absorb them than in a dense one, regardless of how you define words like sparse and dense and capacity. And, of course, density is distributed unevenly. Certain standards of living or ways of living will not support more than a certain number of people. So questions arise as to whether it's the right of a people or a region to have any such standard or way of living.

Without a theory of why people would taper off reproduction as the world becomes crowded, the politics of immigration becomes tethered to the politics of reproduction. Birth itself is a kind of immigration, and sometimes people who want to taper immigration seem to nonetheless want to encourage birth, without seeing or acknowledging that each of these increases population density and strain on finite resources. In an "empty" world, the risk is of having too few people, and both birth and immigration seem obvious opportunities to mitigate risk. In a "full" world, the risk is of having too many people, and both birth and immigration seem points of concern and opportunities for risk to attach.

Of course, density is not distributed evenly in the world, so these concepts apply differently in different places, but it simplifies discussion to keep things simple. To have a coherent ethics on this, one must know where one is in the empty/full spectrum. And, of course, all gets even more complicated if one realizes that people will inevitably overlay race, religion, wealth, or nationality, but the essential problems are best seen if you hold those at bay long enough to understand it is not really possible to ignore overpopulation as a core driver of the stress. In some sense, those other factors just create ways of magnifying, partitioning, and sadly scapegoating that stress.

Discussions of both reproduction and immigration are intrinsically difficult because they get quickly into issues of how we may fairly distribute finite resources in an ever more crowded world as cultures with very different and deeply held practices and expectations come ever more inevitably into contact and, too often, conflict with one another. Achieving any sense of fairness can be a nontrivial task because each is starting from a different place and there is often no commonly agreed starting point for what can be expected to be fixed and what must be up for negotiation. It probably have to start with everyone agreeing there's a real problem and that we all need to be equitably involved in a solution, but I sense there's a lot of denial on both of these points.

#population #immigration #philosophy #overpopulation #sustainability #ethics #politics

Ian DeBayiandebay
2025-04-29

If overpopulation caused climate change, billionaires would be blameless. Let’s not.

Listen to my latest podcast episode: "Is Overpopulation Really the Problem? Rethinking Climate Blame" iandebay.com/podcast/is-overpo

theNamelessJustUs4Pali
2025-04-28

/1.9 billion acres (*88% unoccupied = *1.7 billion acres)

/32 million acres (88% unoccupied =28 milion acres)

/2.5 billion acres (80% uninhabited = 2 billion acres)

/1.9 billion acres (95% uninhabited = 1.8 billion acres)

...i could keep going, but i think its clear this was never about of room or ...

Darren Fowerdarrenfower
2025-04-27

NET 🚣🏽 migration 🛫 increasing by 33x times the amount,  is "mad", says Nigel Farage (ReformUK)❗

Darren Fowerdarrenfower
2025-04-20

🤥 For more than a decade, Conservatives promised to crack down on illegal migration and slash the number of legal arrivals. BUT, they failed 👎🏻 ...

Darren Fowerdarrenfower
2025-04-16

🌍 REALITY: "Many Tory voters feel the Conservative Party has strayed from its traditional values and failed to deliver on key promises, particularly regarding immigration and Brexit."

Darren Fowerdarrenfower
2025-04-16

🤥 After reneging on its manifesto pledge to not raise National Insurance, Labour is starting to struggle with another promise: to cut energy bills by £300 a year⁉️

Darren Fowerdarrenfower
2025-04-16

👨🏻‍🏫 Economists say reindustrialising creates high-skilled jobs, boosts economic resilience, and secures our country's future - So why aren't the Labour party doing this⁉️

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