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[–] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 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.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years 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

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years 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

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