ThinkFeelExist's video: The Myth of Overpopulation -- Alan Watt

The idea of overpopulation is, at best, a pseudoscientific myth. This myth is backed by a number of erroneous lines and arguments: THE “LIMITED RESOURCES” ARGUMENT. The overpopulation line hangs on the theory that the world is a space of finite resources, and that, as such, population numbers, human activity, and the standard of living are inevitably constrained by resource scarcity. This is entirely disproven as nonsense. When you lack resources of any one type, you have the ability to create, discover or develop new resources, technologies and avenues of development – and that's how we got from cave dwelling to the space age. As in the past people got over scarcity by harnessing fire, inventing the wheel and agriculture, and so on and so forth, nowadays when you lack, let's say oil, you develop fusion power – and then you reach even higher. After all, Humanity is endowed with the most valuable of all resources, Reason: giving Man the power of creative rational thinking and, thus, the ability to realize progress. The limited resources theory was developed by Thomas Malthus in the 18th century and has been fostered ever since, generally for the fact that it is a pseudoscientific means to rationalize social inequality, oligarchic rule and practices of economic looting and even genocide. If this world is one of 'scarcity' and 'limited resources', then it follows that there will always be extremes of inequality, that poverty is a natural thing, that economies should be based on redistributing limited wealth, and also that scarcity can best be solved by controlling population numbers. If you lack bread for all, you don't bake more bread, you get rid of people. This is the essential economic rationale that has presided over every atrocity of the last 200 years, ever since Malthus himself supervised the economic looting of India (with the genocide of millions) on behalf of the East India Co. THE EARTH JUST ISN'T OVERPOPULATED. So, now we're done with the 'limited resources' nonsense, let's go to the idea that everywhere you turn to, you find people pilled up on people etc. This just isn't true. Most of the planet's landmass is uninhabited, and most people in the world are concentrated in dense urban areas. As has been pointed out time and again in academic literature, the whole world population could actually be fit into something so comparatively small as Texas. The world's population is 7B people. The landmass of Texas is 268,581sq mt – that is, 7,487,608,550,400sq ft. Divide that by 7B people, and you get around 1000sq ft/person. That's a decent plot of land for every one on Earth. Yet, there's more. Almost all of the Northern Hemisphere is going through what is called a demographic winter, with birth rates below 2,1 children per woman, resulting in gradual population decline. You see, 2,1 is the minimum that will ensure intergenerational population replacement: if every 2 people breed 2 children, the numerical population will remain the same over generations, whereas, if they breed less than 2, the population will decline overtime – as it would increase if they bred more than 2. Europe, Russia and China are going through demographic winter, and the U.S. would also be going through it if it wasn't for the high birth rates of U.S. latinos. The Southern Hemisphere has higher birth rates (ranging from 2 to 6 children per woman), but you have to note the average life expectancy is much shorter than in the north, on account of economic pillage and extreme poverty. A lot of children die before they're 5, and large numbers die earlier than average from conflict, famine, disease. THE ENVIRONMENTAL ARGUMENT. The idea that people pollute. People don't pollute. What pollutes are dirty practices and obsolete technologies. You can have vast numbers of people living on the planet as long they're using clean and effective technologies and avenues of human progress. So, you develop those. This is the way you improve Humanity's standard of living while caring for nature, and it's actually essential to cleaning up the planet – stuff such as nuclear pollution and the like won't solve itself. An essential step here is to develop high efficiency, clean, inexpensive and inexhaustible energy sources (nowadays, this primarily means fusion power). This will allow you to clean up the Earth, and it's of course an essential if you want to end world poverty and to fulfill Humanity's destiny of expanding across the Universe. THE WORLD'S LANDMASS IS HUGE and it contains vast uninhabited wide open spaces. Deserts can be greened and made inhabitable and, as things progress, Humanity can also go into fields such as underwater and underground cities and, especially, space colonization. If you don't want the Earth to be overcrowded, then focus on creating enough progress and development to go into space and to terraform planets and make them inhabitable. Think of the haven a green, terraformed Mars would be.