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2 centuries ago there weren’t anywhere near 8 billion people. Earth ain’t got any bigger since then. At what point would you consider the world overpopulated? 10 billion? 15? 20?

I don’t see that he was wrong at all, he was just calling it out earlier than anyone was ready to listen.

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You might as well warn about the sun eating the earth and turning it into hell. It’s not too soon, only 5 billion years left.

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