Framing issues of consumption and pollution and overproduction as "overpopulation" has always had racist undertones.
so long as people continue trying to live like Americans
not even "living like Americans" since most Americans are poor, but living like wealthy Americans. It's America's military, America's corporations, and America's bourgeois class that consume more resources and emit more carbon than the vast majority of the population. There is no reason to throw America's prisoners, America's homeless, America's immigrants, America's LGBT/BIPOC minorities and American's proletarians under the umbrella of "overpopulation" or "living like Americans" since Americans are incredibly class stratified.
That being said, I’m not advocating wiping out the population or whatever other eco-fash solutions are out there.
Still you don't want to start off any statement with "I mean overpopulation is an issue" regardless of what nuance comes afterwards because overpopulation is not the issue at all.
see this video, 3:40 through 6:30
Framing issues of consumption and pollution and overproduction as "overpopulation" has always had racist undertones.
not even "living like Americans" since most Americans are poor, but living like wealthy Americans. It's America's military, America's corporations, and America's bourgeois class that consume more resources and emit more carbon than the vast majority of the population. There is no reason to throw America's prisoners, America's homeless, America's immigrants, America's LGBT/BIPOC minorities and American's proletarians under the umbrella of "overpopulation" or "living like Americans" since Americans are incredibly class stratified.
Still you don't want to start off any statement with "I mean overpopulation is an issue" regardless of what nuance comes afterwards because overpopulation is not the issue at all.