• r1veRRR@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    “Overpopulation” is simply one perspective on the problem of overconsumption. It’s the lazy option, because esp. childfree people can pretend they tOTallY would’ve had 5 children, but they valiantly put the planet before their personal wishes. Incidentally, those same people then do nothing else and smugly point at other people. The truth is you didn’t want to have children anyway, so you saved 0 CO2. I say this as a childfree person myself.

    We can either reduce consumption or reduce population. I find only one of these has a chance to happen ethically, without, you know, genocide.