Comment by zanderwohl
3 hours ago
To be fair, overpopulation was never an actual concern. Since the 1800s, food production growth rates have outpaced population growth rates. Underpopulation _is_ a concern when infrastructure and social structures may not be able contract quickly enough to sustain our current quality of life.
Don't worry, overpopulation will come back as a concern when we get massive crop collapse due to climate change.
You can see all the bad things about modern cultivation but lack of resistance to climate change isn’t one.
Yes, for many swaths and types of traditional agriculture and fishing it will be doom, but this conversation isn’t about local ecosystem but global food production vs population growth.
Food production was never a problem, supply and management is.
The food scarcity concern was certainly overblown, I was thinking more about the environmental concern.