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When are people going to start acknowledging the elephant in the room: there are too many humans for us all to live western lifestyles, and unless we want our descendants to live vastly poorer lives we need to give serious attention to population control now.

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Because there are alternatives to population control, like increasing the sustainability of food and energy sources. After all, the planet now supports twice as many people as it did a few decades ago, and that's basically down to agricultural yield improvements.

Making less humans seems to be morally taboo, no one wants to go there.

> Making less humans seems to be morally taboo, no one wants to go there.

The train will eventually have arrived at that station while people continue to pretend it didn't.

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