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A comment on Giraffes Added to the Endangered Species List (2016). Parent comment

Re:Giraffes Added to the Endangered Species List (2016) by IshKebab on Friday March 30, 2018 @02:10PM (#16718453)
You have that backwards. Pretty much everything else is a symptom of overpopulation, which is the root problem.

No matter how green and efficient we are, if the population keeps growing it won't really matter.

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Re:Giraffes Added to the Endangered Species List (2016) by lifeformed on Friday March 30, 2018 @03:35PM (#16719136)
But the population doesn't grow much where standards of living are high. People have lots of kids in poor areas because their survival rates are relatively low, and need them for labor. As conditions improve, birth rates lower.
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Re:Giraffes Added to the Endangered Species List (2016) by mathgladiator on Friday March 30, 2018 @04:31PM (#16719573)
The argument is that when people have better living conditions, they have less babies. Namely, babies will survive so two people will only have one child.
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