DU Poll on World Population

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30. Malthus and his debunked nonsense were a stain on human history...

These overpopulation arguments are nothing more than a convenient excuse for capitalist gatekeepers to defend the current political, economic, and social arrangements as the only way forward. It's overpopulation that's to blame , it's unregulated capitalism that's to blame, it's the Mormon Tabernacle Choir that's to blame. It's everything other than where the problem lies and that is with capitalism and the over production for the profits of parasites along with the rampant over consumption that goes with it for the "winners."

The real argument is not that there are "too many humans" but there are "too many of those others" who are excess baggage in the quest for a select utopia of the enlightened select few within a capitalist system. To continue to blame the masses and the victims for the debasement, hoarding, and destruction of natural resources caused by a very small ruling class of global capitalist parasites is beyond sickening.

The ruling class (those that own and control nearly all land, the commons, and the means and distribution of production) are producing and distributing for the greed and over consumption of the "capitalist winners" and not the need of the WHOLE of the masses. Blaming overpopulation and not confronting the capitalist modes of production, the question of private ownership of the commons and the land, and the commodification for profit of nearly every resource and human need is a highly reactionary stance.

Over population is not the problem. The problem is how production and resources are organized, managed, distributed, controlled and by whom. Capitalism can never provide an equitable distribution of production and resources in a way that takes care of the population as a whole and doesn't despoil and destroy everything around it as it does now. It is not the way forward for the human race and it won't be tamed or regulated. The resources and the means and distribution of production belong in the hands of the people as a whole and not in the hands of a ruling class of global capitalist parasites.

The fact that the depopulation crowd continues to use memes like "too many humans" instead of exposing capitalism for what it is - a system that hordes and funnels resources and the commons into the hands of the few for the immense profits of the few - says it all about whose side the depopulation crowd is on and it's not on the side of the people as a WHOLE.