r/overpopulation
ActiveOverpopulation: unending growth on our finite planet is impossible.
We are growing relentlessly, carrying out deforestation and eradication of other species, exhausting fish stocks, using up our resources to the limit and competing over what remains. Instead of converting a diversified biomass into more and more humans who will intensify the process, let's aim for a lower, stable, more mature population. We have the means, we need the will.
Members
22,047
as of February 2025
Last post
today
October 14, 2026
Posts (30 days)
65
Created
2009
May 15, 2009
Total posts
18.8K
archived
Total comments
86.7K
archived
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r/overpopulation was created on May 15, 2009.
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