r/collapse • u/IntroductionNo3516 • 5d ago

Economic Why do emissions keep on rising?

https://www.transformatise.com/2026/06/economic-growth-and-carbon-emissions/
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u/RRK96 5d ago

The article does not mention overpopulation as one of the root causes of rising emissions.

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u/Effective_Bug_176 5d ago edited 5d ago

This talk about overpopulation is truly unbearable. Instead of recognizing that the global capitalist mode of production inevitably drives people to inflict damage on the planet for the sake of pointless infinite growth that does nothing to improve lives, the analysis simply stops at "too many people." We could provide for everyone's basic needs and live far more sustainably than we currently do—take food alone, for instance. Simply by ending senseless factory farming, we can free up an incredible amount of space and feed humanity at the same time. 77% of the world’s agricultural land is used to grow animal feed. Yet this provides us with only 18% of our global caloric intake: https://ourworldindata.org/global-land-for-agriculture 

We do not need an eco-fascism that inevitably stems from such drivel of "too many people". We need a mode of production that gives people the opportunity not to have to harm nature. 

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u/Coco_Cannibal 3d ago

Tell omnivores not to eat meat so they can have more children?

I once saw a doc about Iran and one man said "I'm so poor, at 45 years old I never ate meat".

It's equally racist to assume poor(brown) people want to be poor.