A Boring Dystopia

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Poignant post on the state of things (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Population growth can go too far, can't it?

Last I checked the world seems to be ending around us one day at a time as we march towards an ever higher global temperature, but if you want to say that's normal and fine and we're gonna be ok in 250 years then overpollution from overconsumption isn't a problem yet.

At what point does the earth become overpopulated? are we already there? if not... what's the magic number?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Uh, we are already past resource tipping points as human beings. This means we use more resources than the Earth is producing in a single year, which also means we cut into the resources that have been generated in other plentiful years (like old growth forests, fish populations, etc). If we efficiently utilized the space we have we could raise the bar for that resource tipping point, but we don't.

So yeah. TL;DR: it's not necessarily that we're overpopulated now but our population size + overconsumption = effective overpopulation.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

When I saw in a video that 96% of animals are either human or living for human consumption it was the biggest what the fuck moment of my adult life.

https://ourworldindata.org/biodiversity?insight=wild-mammals-make-up-only-a-few-percent-of-the-world-s-mammals#key-insights-on-biodiversity

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

96% of mammals by biomass. Still a what the fuck moment, but a noteworthy difference between that and all animals.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

96% of mammals, not animals. So it does not count fish, birds, reptiles, insects and etc...

I mean, it's still a shocking number

PS: ops, someone already replied that... sorry

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

According to Limits to Growth- 2040