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Environment & Energy

OKIsItJustMe

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Reply to thought crime (Reply #3)

Thu Jun 11, 2026, 03:52 PM

Jun 11

When i was young, my mother told me, “Whenever the population get’s too high, the ‘four horsemen’ tend to take care of the excess.”

One of the many contributors to our population explosion was modern agriculture. If the food supply expands, if fewer people are starving, if fewer children suffer from malnutrition, then the population expands. It’s classic Malthus

❝The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change.❞

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'Severe' stress on oceans as rate of sea level rise doubles in 10 years, UN warns [View all] OKIsItJustMe Jun 9 OP

"We cannot keep treating the ocean as limitless" thought crime Jun 10 #1

Overpopulation (and we are overpopulated) is just one part of the problem OKIsItJustMe Jun 10 #2

Great chart, thanks thought crime Jun 11 #3

You're welcome! OKIsItJustMe Jun 11 #4