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submitted 6 days ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

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The world population will reach 8.09 billion on New Year’s Day 2025, growing by 71 million people (0.9%) in 2024, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates.

This marks a slight slowdown from 2023’s 75 million increase. Globally, 4.2 births and 2.0 deaths are expected every second in January 2025.

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[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago

When I replied it was just the first line.

Then you added another paragraph, talking about something no one else has talked about...

But it seems like you heard someone talk about "infinite growth" in terms of profits and think that applies to everything?

If you weren't so argumentative, I probably could have helped you understand this.

[-] SparrowHawk@feddit.it 2 points 5 days ago

I added it less than 5 minutes after I posted it, since I figured I wrote too little and wanted to make my point clearer.

Maybe I wouldn't have been so argumentative if you wouldn't have been condescending in the first place.

And yes, the idea of overpopulation comes from false premises about an exponential growth in human population which is very improbable to happen because birth rates in the global North are declining and so will those in the global South once children stop dropping like flies because of inhuman conditions forced on them by the powers that be.

If I am so argumentative it is because overpop theory is rooted in racist arguments and is in my opinion a damaging idea to one's view of the world and I am so tired of seeing everyone taking it for granted when really there's nothing granted about it. It subtracts dialectical energy from actual issues and is ultimately just capitalist propaganda in my view

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