r/overpopulation

The other stuff is a little abstract so it might be difficult for some to connect the dots.

- There is enough space. Just build more houses

- Some additional cars wont make a difference

- Just go wind and solar and then there is enough energy

- Just make more food

You can actually build more houses, and produce more energy and make more food. Even it it devastates the environment even further. However you cannot produce more water. Ground water is a finite resource and it gets used up faster the more people you have.

Ground water levels when there are 1 Million people? No problem. At this rate consumption is low enough so that the ground water can always regenerate with rain.

Same spot but the city is suddenly 3 Million people? Consumption is above the level of regeneration. At this rate the lake would run dry within 100 years.

Same spot but the city is suddenly 12 Million people? Well. All water will be gone within 25 years.

Its so logical. Yet so many fail to see this simple truth.

And yes I know you can make water out of sea water. But this is extremely energy inefficient. Turning 1000 liters of sea water into drinkable water = 3kw/h.

Also transporting this water hundreds or thousands of Kilometers land inwards costs again lots of fuel and CO2.

The world population is nearing unsustainable levels. 8.3B now, when it was only 6B when I was born.

At some point, do you think we need to reduce the world population?

There has to be some systematic way of reducing the population to sustainable levels.

AI, automation, robotics, general increase in productivity, death of small businessses by the hands of large companies that have more economics of scale and hence require lesser labor will significantly reduce labor demand by quite a lot.

Unemployment crisis is a literally a hundred times worse than any labor shortage, in fact peoples wages may even go up during labor shortage.

Hence it is mandatory to lower births as much as possible without any fear of labor shortage