Is the Over Population Argument a Myth?

Derrick: Isn't the over population argument really about inequality of consumption? As you're speaking about amazon and yuknow cars and grocery stores, that like somehow if we could get the global north to down size everything, there would be no resource issue. I mean, not that we shouldn't work at or dream about it, but does the mat not work out on that idea? Mother jones did a report about eight or nine years ago, i remember reading, where they said that if everyone lived a middle class american life style, that the entire continent of africa and all asia could not actually there weren't enough resources to support that type of life style. So

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