Talk:Human overpopulation

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Section sizes

Section size for Human overpopulation (30 sections) Section name Byte count Section total (Top) 8,795 8,795 Overview 19,179 34,738 History of world population 10,734 10,734 Future projections 4,825 4,825 History of overpopulation hypotheses 77 12,867 Historical use 3,919 3,919 Contemporary use 8,871 8,871 Key arguments 18 6,388 Overconsumption 3,928 3,928 Carrying capacity 2,442 2,442 Proposed impacts 21 33,367 Poverty, and infant and child mortality 841 841 Environmental impacts 21,024 21,024 Resource depletion 5,519 5,519 Political systems and social conflict 4,547 4,547 Epidemics and pandemics 1,415 1,415 Proposed solutions and mitigation measures 116 20,073 Population planning 12,525 17,569 Family planning 5,044 5,044 Extraterrestrial settlement 113 113 Urbanization 2,275 2,275 Criticism 7,625 20,380 Women's rights 2,917 2,917 Coercive population control policies 4,302 4,302 Racism 5,536 5,536 Advocacy organizations 1,104 1,104 See also 403 636 Documentary and art 233 233 References 87 87 Further reading 1,528 1,528 Total 139,963 139,963

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'Hypothetical'

I would like to debate the use of this word 'hypothetical' in the first line. ~ Basvossen (talk) 02:24, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

Agreed. The fact that it is a debate needs to be made more clear. _{too_much} curiosity (talk) 19:02, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

Removed misleading graph -- 58.6 tonnes of Co2 per year per child

I think the graph is highly misleading. It was taken from a paper describing how textbooks fail to mention not having children as a way to reduce carbon footprint. The "56.8 tonnes", however, comes from the impact of all descendants averaged over the years in person's lifetime, and assumes that each descendant has the the same environmental impact as humans in wealthy countries in 2005. To me, this is obviously misleading so I removed it. If you disagree, please revert my edit and comment below. _{too_much} curiosity (talk) 02:40, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

Epidemics and pandemics section is poorly written

This section has grammatical errors and it doesn't really make sense. It seems to contradict itself, and the source material it cites doesn't really make the claims mentioned in the second paragraph. 198.98.119.78 (talk) 04:47, 31 August 2023 (UTC)

I tried to fix the grammatical errors in the second paragraph. I read the source and agree that it doesn't make the claims mentioned in that paragraph. The last sentence of that paragraph also seems to be talking about a different subject. I think that whole paragraph should be either rewritten to match the source or removed. 23impartial (talk) 04:26, 9 November 2023 (UTC)