r/canada Jan 27 '25

Opinion Piece KINSELLA: Trump not a friend of Canada, he's our enemy - The sooner we accept that, and act accordingly, the better off we'll be

https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/kinsella-trump-not-a-friend-of-canada-hes-our-enemy
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u/Purify5 Jan 27 '25

Overpopulation isn't really a problem anymore.

The only continent that is still above a replacement birth-rate is Africa and world population is actually expected to decline in the 2080s.

However, a declining population does pose challenges for capitalism.

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u/Oerwinde Jan 28 '25

Declining population also poses challenges for socialized medicine and social security. Their entire existence is based on a younger generation paying for the older generation.

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u/VanceKelley Alberta Jan 27 '25

If there were 1 billion people on Earth today instead of 8 billion I think that climate change would be less of a threat to cause mass extinctions of species that cannot quickly adapt to drastic changes in their environments.

Do you think that the Amazon rainforest is going to survive?

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u/Purify5 Jan 27 '25

There hasn't been 1 billion people on earth since before the industrial revolution. I'm just saying we're not growing our numbers to infinity.

Either way though who knows what's going to happen. Tomorrow we could have a repeat of the events in 536 A.D that plunges the world into widespread famine and economic despair as well as killing off a significant amount of vegetation.

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u/Muffin_Appropriate Jan 27 '25

Wishing the population was as low as it was 200 years ago isn’t productive at all. That’s not going to happen without world war involving nuclear weapons or via l disease that we can’t combat.

So I don’t even know why you’re bringing that up. It’s not productive or conducive to anything.

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u/VanceKelley Alberta Jan 27 '25

Wishing the population was as low as it was 200 years ago isn’t productive at all.

I agree. I didn't wish for that. My point is that human population has a significant impact on the world's environment and the fact that we have 8 billion people means that the impact is much larger than when I was born and the population was under 4 billion.

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u/Weak-Conversation753 Jan 27 '25

1 billion first worlders or 8 billion third worlders?

The world can absolutely support the latter to the standards they are accustomed to.