On Human Overpopulation
A recurring theme among a number of widely divergent political and environmental movements is that of human overpopulation. Often, the claim that there are too many humans has conspicuous racist overtones and is associated with ecofascism, but claims of overpopulation are also made by people with very different political ideas. Much of the popular overpopulation discourse appears to be quite ignorant about what โoverpopulationโ even means, however, and about what it might imply, so I thought it might be useful to write a few words about this. What even is โoverpopulationโ? โOverpopulationโ is a relative term โ it means that...