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It's hard watching the people around me make the same mistakes they always make and complain about the same mistakes they always make.
It's hard watching large organizations and states make the same mistakes they always make and blame everyone else for the mistakes they always make. Even when history proves them wrong.
I can never understand why people argue for 8+ billion people on this planet when we collectively refuse to learn from mistakes.
I'm tired...
Argue for? Sorry, trying to understand what you mean here before I jump to conclusions.
Population control is not a solution. There is no way in which that doesn't involve Nazi level eugenics shit given our current world powers. I don't think people ever really walk through the material steps to this in their head.
I didn't state anything about population control.
I'm merely exhausted by the complexity that people must deal with for each person we add to this planet. That complexity would be far more manageable if humans didn't reproduce exponentially.
Yes we can support support 8 billion people. But why? From my understanding we got here mainly because capitalism and war has a high demand for warm bodies.
Maybe we can learn from our mistakes and deal with them rather than making excuses to remain on course for pain, suffering and disaster. Us humans learning and overcoming our current situation has the benefit for all life on this planet.
Fair enough. That's why I asked for clarification. I agree. I think I misinterpreted what you said as being a nod at people that say "reduce the population" while ignoring all of the problems with capitalism.