I can already hear it. I know, I know, doomerism has been weaponized in order to keep the working class undereducated, depressed, drugged up, inert, or dead, and I’m falling for bourgeois tactics.

At the same time, though, I look around (even from a privileged, western perspective) and see things getting worse and worse, daily. My life and country have both begun to collapse.

I’m pretty white-pilled when it comes to the human race on the whole, especially with China as the rising superpower, but Jesus. Global economy in shambles, political and civil unrest, and the worst existential threat in human history in climate change all at the same time.

What are the next 20 years going to bring?

I’m scared, and I have a really bad feeling about all of this.

  • @CITRUS@lemmygrad.ml
    10•2 years ago

    Overpopulation is bourgeois narrative. It’s a double whammy, that 1. It pretends that we can’t feed the world (due to capitalist distribution) so the imperial core countries are justified in “protecting their citizens intrests” and 2. Therefore a justification for killing off those in the developing world, whose population is the poorest and largest. Remember China, has the highest population and isn it sort of convient that the country that would hate ahem “get rid” of their population the most is the rising power?

    China also gets rid of the narrative that more people means worse economy. China has eradicated extreme poverty and is the strongest economic power. If US citizens saw that China has eradicated extreme poverty (with 1.4 billion people!) and IS the strongest economic power, they might just start questioning the capitalist system.

    • @Llyich@lemmygrad.ml
      -2•2 years ago

      General, I respect your opinions but in this case I think you are mistaken.

      Do you think the earth can support an infinite number of human beings?

          • @whoami@lemmygrad.ml
            4•2 years ago

            This is it here. We create enough food for the population. But the distribution is unequal, and what is produced is driven by profit. If we change this, we will be able to feed the whole world

          • @TeezyZeezy@lemmygrad.mlOP
            4•2 years ago

            I mean, fertilizer and our industrialized farming practices are powered by oil - a limited resource. How are we to sustainably feed 9, 10, 11 billion people when that will run out?

            Asking in good faith I just don’t understand? Like the way we make food now is basically cheating and unsustainable, how do we sustain a HIGHER population without oil and destroying fertile land?

            Is it true that we have tons of arable land available?

            I’m undereducated in this sector

            • @GloriousDoubleK@lemmygrad.ml
              5•2 years ago

              Overpopulation is just a spook. You think you’re making it out of this world alive?

              And not that history is cruel or whatever; but we are at about 8 bill people now. If we are going to die by mass starvation and lack of resources; what difference does it make if it’s 7 billion or 30 billion? We are talking billions of lives that could be snuffed out by lack of resources NOW. The nightmare cant be any worse than it is IF shit gets that bad. Malthusian worry doesn’t matter anymore. A culling of billions be it natural or man made is either going to happen or it wont.

              Bare minimum; we can TRY to save ourselves.