https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/06/we-need-to-talk-about-population-overshoot
Many countries have experienced population growth past the sustainable level. Yet people continue to call for further population growth as a way to achieve unsustainable further economic growth. I suspect that a large part of the motive for these pseudo-solutions is to distract the non-rich from the need to reduce the share of wealth and income that the rich get.
Richard Stallman
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