Think about the number of people needed to maintain the Linux Kernel, to maintain the Unicode standards, to maintain the w3c standards, to maintain a webserver,

Think about the number of people needed to maintain the Linux Kernel, to maintain the Unicode standards, to maintain the w3c standards, to maintain a webserver, to maintain a web browser, to maintain a desktop environment. Now multiply that by the number of options needed to maintain competitiveness and you have the fixed amount of manpower needed to maintain the software stack needed for websites. This amount of manpower is needed whether there are 20,000 websites in existence or 20,000,000. The type of people prone to Malthusian thinking only consider marginal costs when we live in a world of fixed costs. Economy of scale is how we maintain our current standard of living and no matter how much you fantasize about being a simple farmer or a hunter-gatherer the fact of the matter is that few people on this forum would not survive in those conditions, let alone be content. Pragmatism aside I can't believe that it's fashionable nowadays to advocate for outright genocide in the name of environmentalism. Priorities have become entirely perverted to the point where people no longer value humanity first. You should be asking about how to save Humanity, not the planet. You are a human being, not a tree, you should care about the latter in the context of the former. Human population growth has shown itself to be logarithmic while food production isn't hitting any limits yet[0]. This desire to cull humanity can only come from some sort of religious misanthropy that should not be tolerated anywhere. Since we are dealing with what are essentially death cultists here we can also approach it from a existential angle. Think about all the times where amongst the people around you you were the only person that knew a specific piece of information. A reasonable assumption in the modern age would be that that no matter how obscure your knowledge is, there are probably others who also share it. Now imagine that the population is so small that you truly are the only person who knows that piece of information, should you die, or even have a lapse in memory, all of it is dissolved into the void. Imagine a world where you truly are a alone, where you are all that there is protecting your interests from entropy, and that is the world that these Malthusian Death Cultists want. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/17/world-cropland-feed-3-billion-more-people-study https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/17/world-cr...