When I was younger, I would occasionally hear from fellow environmentalists that the “real problem” was human overpopulation. (The standard answer, from the well informed, was: nope, it’s inequality, extractive capitalism, institutional inertia, patriarchal values, colonialism, et al. “Overpopulation” was a symptom, not the disease.) The population-mongers have mostly faded since then, as the “demographic […]
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The population bli(m)p
Posted in Anthropocene, Eco-theory, tagged Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, demographic transition, demography, human population growth, overpopulation, population on October 14, 2023 | 7 Comments »