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Anyway, since my creepy stalker is still trying to defend his very problematic views on "overpopulation" without sufficient context or nuance, I'm gonna go ahead and discuss my views based that I have developed based on discussion with scholars and my own research over the years.
When people talk about "overpopulation", it's actually just overconsumption ignoring capitalism & colonialism. There's no definitive evidence that humans are overpopulated, but certain countries are really bad at resource management to the point it affects everyone else.
Scientists, economists, environmentalists, sociologists, even religious scholars; people from all walks of life, backgrounds, and expertise agree that the overpopulation myth is exaggerated and lacks context. It is often used as a reason for population control measures that--
Traditionally have targeted marginalized communities and essentially amounts to select population sterilization, i.e. eugenics. Black/indigenous women have had sterilization forced on them by the U.S. & Canadian government, but overpopulation advocates won't talk about it.
"In late 2018, sixty indigenous Canadian women alleged that they had suffered forced sterilizations and filed a class‐action lawsuit against the Saskatchewan province health system. New allegations have continued to come forth in 2019--" https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/cruel-truth-about-population-control
Overpopulation isn't a global issue despite how it's framed. There are issues of overcrowding in urbanized spaces, but that is a completely separate issue with different solutions. Regardless of global or local crowding, the answer is never and never will be population control.
Thing is, the evidence is pointing to equality helping to curb populations and ending capitalist consumption would allow natural resources to actually regenerate. Create an equal, just society and dismantle capitalism, and it would go a long way to alleviate the climate crisis.
Here's a great thread about the issue with how people discuss overpopulation and faults in the argument. https://twitter.com/Prof_FSultana/status/1327998386231005185?s=19
Here's another great thread about the issue of framing overconsumption as overpopulation. https://twitter.com/CostaSamaras/status/1327825771872858123?s=19
Also, here are some articles and studies that have been done from many different orgs and experts about the lack of evidence for overpopulation if anyone wants some light reading on the issue. https://apa.nyu.edu/hauntedfiles/the-problem-with-the-population-bomb-eugenics-and-population-control/
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/03/there-is-no-overpopulation-problem/341205/
Here's another great thread about why overpopulation isn't the issue people make it out to be. https://twitter.com/SamanthaSHauser/status/1329556207833665538?s=19
