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• Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah, it’s great. Farmers need to use pesticides and monocultures to stay competitive, since other farmers are using them. Also, pesticides and monocultures kill the ecosystems that provide things like natural pest control, pollination and humus. So, you probably don’t get an increased yield from pesticides and monocultures when they’re employed in wide areas, while you do still get the destruction of ecosystems.

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• PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Let’s be fair, 9 billion of people living on Earth is already just too much and we are projected to peak at 11 billion apparently.

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  • qevlarr@lemmy.world ⁨29⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Oh no, not this again… There’s enough food for everyone and we throw most of it away. Farming can be improved, but then we need to change our diets and how we distribute food. Water is equally abundant, but we can’t have huge cities in the desert. That sort of stuff.

    Calling people existing a problem is itself problematic. It’s a step on the way to socially pressure or outright forbid people from having children, which makes existing power dynamics super creepy. Like, you think the rich and powerful will ever be denied this right? The road to eugenics, fascism, genocide is paved with green liberals concerned about overpopulation.

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  • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Please tell me why everyone is so concerned about declining birth rates*. Please.
    *Without mentioning industry

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    • auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Because it means there will be a larger burden on (smaller) younger generations to look after the aging ones.

      Instead of 6 kids and 30 grandkids, you maybe have 2 kids and 1 grandkid, if you’re lucky.

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    • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They’re concerned about “their” people, because it’s declining only in rich countries and those tend to see themselves as “better” and don"t like “unregulated immigration” (while the regulated one costs shit tons of money). Also those who bring thst up are usually right-wingers.

      Or to say it bluntly: Xenophobia and racism.

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    • blackbrook@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Because we’re anxious about our investments in soylent green.

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Things were going well until Xi Jinping became a dictator and China reversed the One Child Policy.

    We also managed to slightly curb the population growth in the Middle East before the Taliban resurgence. The middle east is the fastest growing population, and a 1995 UN Meeting in Cairo Egypt came to the conclusion that education and rights for women were the ideal solutions to the problem.

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• Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Going organic and plant-based would be such a massive improvement.

  People have been saying this for at least 40 years.

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  • The_v@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, only half of that statement is correct. Organic is overall more damaging to the environment for most species. The lower yields = more acres needed for cultivation.

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    • seeaya@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Also, many GMOs were engineered to be more resistant to pests and thus need fewer pesticides

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• Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Your Temporary Custodian

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