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  • JoeySteel [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Daily reminder overpopulation is not the problem and is an ecofascist talking point

    If you rank the greatest polluters by country the number one spot isnt even a country its the US military

    On average, one American consumes as much energy as

    o 2 Japanese

    o 6 Mexicans

    o 13 Chinese

    o 31 Indians

    o 128 Bangladeshis

    o 307 Tanzanians

    o 370 Ethiopians

    The average American individual daily consumption of water is 159 gallons, while more than half the world's population lives on 25 gallons.

    Americans eat 815 billion calories of food each day - that's roughly 200 billion more than needed - enough to feed 80 million people.

    Americans throw out 200,000 tons of edible food daily. While 250 million people have died of hunger-related causes in the past quarter-century roughly 10 million each year (that just shows that Americans dont really care about "famines".

    Each person in the industrialized world uses as much commercial energy as 10 people in the developing world. The poorest 10% accounted for just 0.5% and the wealthiest 10% accounted for 59% of all the consumption.

    “With less than 5 percent of world population, the U.S. uses one-third of the world’s paper, a quarter of the world’s oil, 23 percent of the coal, 27 percent of the aluminum, and 19 percent of the copper,” he reports. “Our per capita use of energy, metals, minerals, forest products, fish, grains, meat, and even fresh water dwarfs that of people living in the developing world.”

    Next time you hear about a woman in India who has seven children, remember that she'd have to have more than 20 children to match the impact of an American woman with just one child.

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/american-consumption-habits/

    https://public.wsu.edu/~mreed/380American%20Consumption.htm

    • DirtbagVegan [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I don't think it's really surprising to anyone, but the amount of food waste in the US is truly staggering put into numbers. If food was distributed more equitably we could eliminate hunger in our nation and several others.

    • weshallovercum [any]
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      4 years ago

      I agree with everything you say, but the thing is as societies develop, eventually everyone will start consuming like an American, so the fact that people in India or Africa consume less will not always remain true. Family planning is not fascist