@varx is it? Earth overshoot day was on the 15 of March in the US, while Indonesia, which has a comparable population, only reached that mark on the 18th of December.
Resource depletion has *nothing* to do with population.
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@uint8_t @Antanicus @queeranarchism OK, I'm seriously not saying this in a rude way, but... am I just older than y'all or something? Different frame of reference? Maybe just different media or country or something?
In the 90s, overpopulation was just a standard talking point for environmentalism. It was not a particularly controversial statement to make, just a matter of who cared vs. who didn't. There was no fascist overtone. I gather that some fascists have since picked it up, but that seems *new*.
@uint8_t @Antanicus @queeranarchism Actually, hang on—are you saying "we can't talk about this, period, because now it's a dogwhistle", or "this is false, and *because* it's false, we should remove it from public discourse so that it can't be used as a dogwhistle"?
@Antanicus @varx @queeranarchism I'd argue that access to birth control and sex ed are great and should be available worldwide.
But the term overpopulation is an ecofascist dogwhistle.