Is reaching a global population of eight billion an achievement or an indictment of humanity?

[Tooting Carmen]

This rather Panglossian and over-optimistic article thinks it is the former: https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/1...success-story/

[Cristiano viejo]

It is a catastrophe.

[Hektor12]

World becomeing dirty. (Literally)

Imagine, 8 billion people shitting somewhere on this planet everyday.

[Beowulf]

if it keeps going up that fast this will be a very big mess.

[gixajo]

The cause of most of the problems we have just now, and the cause of future new ones.

[Tooting Carmen]

The cause of most of the problems we have just now, and the cause of future new ones.

So, population size is in itself a bigger problem than greed, corruption, inequality, political or religious or ethnic extremism then? (Playing Devil's advocate here btw).

[gixajo]

So, population size is in itself a bigger problem than greed, corruption, inequality, political or religious or ethnic extremism then? (Playing Devil's advocate here btw).

All that you comment on gets worse the more people there are.

[Tooting Carmen]

All that you comment on gets worse the more people there are.

Although the article I posted in the OP certainly goes too far, the point is there is (at least per capita) indeed less poverty and violence in the world than ever before, even though there are far more humans than in the past.

[sean]

Is reaching a global population of eight billion an achievement or an indictment of humanity?

Almost all of this growth is from Africa and shithole brown parts of Asia. The world is low on resources. Too many mouths to feed, too many wires to run power through, more crime and poverty as the world darkens. We already have enough blacks and browns in Europe, while native Europeans are dying in a pointless war. But people would rather be just little useful idiots for the powers that profit from war.

[Mejgusu]

I think the fact that world population didn’t growth as expected shows that some countries/societies achieved a certain level of wealth, education and women got more freedom. On the other hand we can see that birthrates show global wealth gap, Europe is dealing with massive demographic decline while Many African countries will face with overpopulation.