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Species extinction and animal population decline is not the same thing as environmental collapse. edit: To clarify, people say that we have exceeded the carryi
by igravious 7y ago
Species extinction and animal population decline is not the same thing as environmental collapse.
edit: To clarify, people say that we have exceeded the carrying capacity of the Earth or that we'll exceed it as the population mushrooms. This data proves the population won't mushroom, and I assert that 11 billion is well within the carrying capacity of the Earth. Do I have any proof? No. But neither do the doomsayers who claim otherwise. That's the specific narrative I'm trying to push back against.
- notfromhere 7y agowhat do you think is the environment? we can't survive without biodiversity
- igravious 7y agoWe both know what the environment is. What you meant to say is that we can't survive below some threshold of biodiversity. Nobody's talking about zero biodiversity. What do you think that threshold is? I think we can survive (and the environment will be okay with) less biodiversity. How much less that turns out to be I guess we're going to find out.