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What's with people instantly becoming malthusians when fertility rates are being discussed? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago by lorty@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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Like, where does this come from? Even people that aren't particularly conservative seem to think that less people = good. Maybe the problem isn't the amount of people but how their needs are met? Yes, the world is finite, but pretending that hunger, homelessness, wars and diseases are in anyway caused by the amount of people on Earth rather than how we deal with those things is as insane as denying climate change.

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[–] Cuervo@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 2 weeks ago

it's absorbed through osmosis by people living in capitalism and being surrounded by bourgeois media of all types .that and not being taught to think critically or creatively about anything. so people think population increase = more people within their personal space and possibly taking their resources.

the main referent is immigration and you know how that 's spoken about. unfortunately people would rather imagine themselves being a little fascist than imagine themselves challenging their hoarding employer / landlord / utility company / etc