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I have a hard time seeing the overpopulation argument as anything other than classist and racist nonsense.

It's not the vast majority in developing nations that are using up all our fossil fuels and poisoning the planet, it's us. And the damage being done in developing nations is nearly all to serve our needs in the developed world. We are the problem.

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Dunno why it's classist or racist. I'll put forth the proposition that there are too many people in the US.

Imagine the greenhouse load reduction from having half the population. It wouldn't surprise me if it's easier to push population growth down than it is to have good habits, especially after the low hanging fruit is plucked.

I don't know who you mean by "us," but while this distribution is somewhat top heavy, it's not something where even if the most destructive country took its emissions to zero, the world would be safe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_greenhous...

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