I was in a disagreement with a friend about this topic (he thought it was and I didn’t). But we both just don’t know enough about it so I came here for help on the subject. Appreciate it!
Edit: so who is (more) right, me or my friend?
In: Economics
The issue is highly dependent on standard of living.
The resource consumption per capita of, say, a Canadian is vastly higher than that of somebody from, say, Liberia.
As you raise the standard of living of poorer nations (which most people want to do) you rapidly increase resource consumption. Energy use itself is highly correlated with wealth.
So yes, overpopulation is a problem if we all want to live like middle class westerners.
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