Overpopulation: unending growth on our finite planet is impossible.

Advocating for murder, eugenics, or culling people does not help make recognition of overpopulation more mainstream.

2021-08-12T00:28:58+00:00

I don't know how often I have to repeat this, but I'll say it again. If you think the way to solve overpopulation is to murder people en masse, advocate for any sort of forced program a la eugenics or forced sterilisation, then you're not helping.

Instead, you're actively harming the goal of making recognition of overpopulation mainstream. No one is ever going to agree with the terms or viewpoints you've laid out. The only way to get people to identify overpopulation as a genuine problem is to push solutions that a broad base of people can agree with.

Posted because there's been an uptick in comments espousing these views recently. If you want an instant, permanent ban from this subreddit, this is a great way to get one.

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r/overpopulation open discussion thread

2026-05-01T16:01:23+00:00

What's on your mind? You can chat here if you don't want to make a new post. Or drop in and see what others are talking about.

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Swiss wait to hear result of ballot on capping population at 10 million

2026-06-13T10:19:33+00:00

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Switzerland to vote on plan to cap population at 10 million

2026-06-13T12:52:29+00:00

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2026-06-13T23:30:37+00:00

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Are smartphones behind the birth rate dropping?

2026-06-13T07:40:29+00:00

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Why birth rates are falling everywhere all at once | FT

2026-06-13T00:38:21+00:00

Why birth rates are falling everywhere all at once | FT

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The case for these suburban "hell"

2026-06-11T13:22:21+00:00

Unpopular opinion ahead. but these houses should be more reliable than most new homes. Why? Corporate America tend to hire low-skilled workers, therefore it is better that they build the same houses to get better experience. They tend to be sloppy with new projects.

Second of all, most people don't like apartments and condos.

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AI And Falling Birth Rates

2026-06-10T10:07:32+00:00

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Would Britain be better with fewer people?

2026-06-09T07:06:54+00:00

Britain has a population density of 285 people per km. England on its own is 450, which makes it the second most densely populated country in Europe and quite incredible when you consider there are 70 million people in Britain, 57 in England.

Looking around the South East especially, it feels like it's just too built up with town after town after town. A sprawl that just keeps going and going and going.

Now, a bit controversial, but considering how little of the country is actually productive and also the environmental reasons behind such a move, would it be great if Britain had half as many people?

Here are some benefits:

Improved ecological and environmental benefits
Quieter roads improving transport times
More homes - greater housing availability means people are more able to move to productive areas. Also, the European norm of house in the city for work and house in the hills/by the sea for holidays could be a step closer.
Less water stress
Improved food security.

I understand that there are costs, but I have to admit, I'm coming round to the idea of a UK of 35.million people and think it would be much better.

Note, this isn't an anti-immigration post. There aren't 35 million immigrants in the UK. half of Brits will have to leave too.

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‘Severe’ stress on oceans as rate of sea level rise doubles in 10 years, UN warns | Oceans

2026-06-08T23:26:54+00:00

The main drivers affecting the marine environment include human population growth and demographic changes, technological advances, changing governance structures, and social economic and geopolitical instability, the report found.

For instance, the global population increased from 7.7 billion in 2017 to 8.2 billion by late 2024. More than a third of people live within 100km of coasts and 11% live on land less than 10 metres above sea level.

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Is India Seeing the benefits of lowering fertility rate

2026-06-09T02:56:15+00:00

Population stability helps solving basic unfullfilled needs. is india seeing the benefits of lowering fertility rate

Have you notice some little benefits.

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What do you think happens economically when a country's population starts shrinking?

2026-06-08T22:51:13+00:00

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CMV: Thanos is right, Overpopulation is big problem

2026-06-07T11:40:46+00:00

As of today our world has 8.3 Billion people!

Totally relate with thanos and i really hate overpopulation especially i am living in country with top populated country in the world. here is why i agree with thanos and why overpopulation is really big problem :

Crowds everywhere packed like salmons
- wherever i go, it is always full of people, especially on public area and transport, commute and going outside basically chaos, not mentioning traffic jams, this is why i prefer stay indoors nowadays
hyper-inflation + Unemployment :
- two combos that destroy welfare easily, this is why its hard to be happy in this era. imagine being unemployed for years because you have to compete with millions of jobseekers + AI invasion and at the same time you are crushed with high living costs just to survive
Environment / Nature Degradation
- More people means more waste and energy consumption, look at how many trash and exploitation to our nature world has become even in just a decade, the damage is overwhelming to the point extreme climate change and crisis is already happening
People just dont care
- Despite of high living cost, people just keep making babies and more and ironically the less educated people is main culprit of this and their mindset still stuck in baby boomer era.

I just hate the current world we are living in right now, it is difficult era to live with and birth control is totally required to fix this yet i dont see any indication that overpopulation can be fixed anytime soon.

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We know that mass deaths due to overpopulation are coming. And I will have no sympathy towards these or towards the people that denied that overpopulation exists and ridiculed us for telling the truth.

2026-06-07T09:02:01+00:00

Afghanistan is running out of water. Kabuls groundwater levels have fallen by up to 30 meters in the last decade and are expected to fall to 0 by 2030. The countries population in 1990 was 12 Million. It now stands at 45 Million. With an estimated 80 Million by 2050. More like 8 Million due to no water, but oh well.

The countries most affected by water shortages lie in the Middle East, Central Asia, and India. All of these countries doubled or trippled their population in the last 30-40 years.

And thats "just" water. Never mind food. 1/3 of countries on the planet have such a large population that they cannot feed it and rely on food imports from abroad.

Never mind resources. Electricity. Fuel.

But if we tell the truth that there are too many people on the planet and that we dont need more but less, we get hostility and are called 10 different names and slurs.

Well I am telling you a truth an idiot has to see. If you cant see it that means you are even dumber than an idiot. And you deserve everything that is coming your way. I will not have any smpathy towards countries/people that denied that overpopulation exists and wanted/promoted to have more people on the Planet.

I tried to warn you. You refused to listen. There you have it. Now deal with the consequences.

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It seems that population decline is natures way of balancing itself with the universe.

2026-06-06T15:46:08+00:00

Modern fertility decline may not be purely sociological. It may be an emergent biological response to artificial surplus. When human beings live inside ecosystems of abundance, stimulation, contraception, status pressure, urban density, and endless choice, the reproductive impulse gets rerouted into consumption, self-optimization, pleasure, and delay. The organism is not consciously choosing “population balance,” but its preferences adapt to a habitat where children feel less like survival and continuity, and more like cost, risk, and interruption.

In other words, our altered relationship with nature may be steering us toward population decline, not as a conscious choice, but as part of life’s deeper tendency toward balance rather than endless growth.

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Why do we care about our own cultures all over the world more than the biodiversity of the planet?

2026-06-05T23:39:13+00:00

The biodiversity on this planet took millions of years to specialize into their current form. No doubt that the cultural richness of various civilizations all over the world deserve respect and attention which is a culmination of a maximum of 10 thousand years. Based on the time scales it took to specialize, shouldn't we or our institutions give more respect and attention to the biodiversity of this planet? I am coming from the observation that very very few daily life conversations are about declining biodiversity.

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86 Million People. One Megalopolis?

2026-06-05T23:01:12+00:00

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Noah's flood was blood, not rain.

2026-06-06T01:44:59+00:00

Between 5000 and 7000 years ago, Africa, Asia, and Europe suffered the death of 95% of all men.

The bible tracks lineage of Jesus in intricate detail, and had that rule "the sins of the father are passed on to the son" because the previous culture of humanity was like that: strict male lineages and the wiping out of all men in the "wrong" lineage.

At some point in time, it was realized how stupid this was, and somehow it was spun into a flood brought by God, not the pathetic self-destructive nature of men.

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Cuba shows why having a smaller population is better

2026-06-03T12:01:21+00:00

Due to the US embargo Cuba is running out of fuel, water everything.

Its population in 1953 was 5.8 Million, then 11 Million in 2005 and due to a massive emigration wave 9.5 Million in 2026.

But thats still 3.7 Million more than in 1953. If Cuba had just 7 or 8 Million people, the resource shortage would be far more managable.

Our massive populations are maintained by a perfectly running resource extraction and delivery system. If this system gets disrupted by just a few weeks, the consequences become dire. By a few months? Catastrophic.

Smaller populations that need less resources are therefore better in order to survive times of crisis.

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How bad is the affordability crisis in your country or state?

2026-06-03T06:19:07+00:00

I live in the USA and it is awful. Even a registered nurse, which is a professional career, could struggle financially. I heard that CA is SO* bad that even the upper-middle class* could struggle, and only the top 5% could afford to live comfortably.

I hate Reagan but the only one thing that he had done correctly is supply-side economics. However, it's too bad that Reaganomics and Trump's policies would kill supply-side economics.

Isn't it funny that the morons always said* "Everyone is equally poor under socialism" which is BS?

Did cheap shit kill the middle class?

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The Beautiful Ones from Universe 25

2026-06-01T23:51:38+00:00

Sounds like a science fiction story, doesn't it?

They didn't mark territory. They didn't mate. They didn't parent. They ate, drank, avoided conflict, came out only when everyone else was asleep, and groomed themselves in private.

Who in your life reminds you of a Beautiful One?

Or the non-reproductive females? or the violently territorial males?

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Opinions on Social Security? Is there an alternative that doesn't rely on constant population growth?

2026-06-01T18:49:52+00:00

This is something I've always wondered about. Social Security is important as it prevents so many old people from starving, but it also relies on the population to constantly grow for it to work.

Is there a better way?

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A Rocket Exploded. We Need to do Math.

2026-06-01T17:15:09+00:00

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Looking at population density and associating it with overpopulation should be avoided.

2026-06-01T13:01:52+00:00

Despite how intuitive it is to link the two, dense places have always existed even before the world got overpopulated because density helps humans to be closer to jobs, services etc...

The entire world can live in the US and there would actually be plenty of space.

The biggest issue with overpopulation is resource depletion and pollution, which is usually less visible to the naked eye.

Associating population density with overpopulation also gives deniers of it ammo and lets them say things like "the entire world can live in Texas with the density of Singapore" which is true but has nothing to do with the real problem.

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