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eliser58 t1_j9d1xvw wrote

Reply to comment by elshankar in World to face wars over food and water without climate action, EU green deal chief says by YoanB

And focusing on population reduction. Our planet can not support the ever burgeoning population.

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[deleted] t1_j9d362w wrote

What do you mean by population reduction

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funwithtentacles t1_j9d5j5k wrote

We really don't have to do anything...

Diseases like Covid will eventually take care of overpopulation.

It's nothing new either... Even I 30+ years ago in basic high school biology we were taught that monoculture invites disease...

None of what we're going through now is anything we didn't know 40-50 years ago.

As a species we're just experts at complacency and ignoring everything that doesn't impact us directly...

It's going to catch up to us one way or the other...

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JustinVieber t1_j9dd6df wrote

Education and available contraception, with those our population will plateau to a manageable level rather than overshoot and crash in massive death.

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eliser58 t1_j9djw9c wrote

Reducing population by not reproducing with such blatant disregard for the future. In my opinion humans who feel the need to procreate could be satisfied with one child, for the good of the planet. Down vote away!!

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MustLovePunk t1_j9dnbj0 wrote

Free vasectomies / TL (and other birth control) for all humans would help

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Eveleyn t1_j9dzxp1 wrote

Look man, i get your thinking, but we share the world with humans. Like Bert from Congo would care.

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Trance354 t1_j9g23ao wrote

There's a certain irony in our population hitting the point where a disease carried by one of our major food stocks is on the verge of killing off a good chunk of our population, mostly because we are denying the fact that the threat exists, denying the lifesaving powers of the vaccines we could save ourselves with, and in so doing, prolonging the current pandemic, which is just a warmup for what's coming.

Vaccines are my friend, but if my friend isn't embraced by everyone, a single mutation could doom us all.

Evolution in practice.

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