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[–] BeefPiano 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Replacement rate for people or resources? Because people are extracting resources at way higher rates than they’re being replaced.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Replacement rate for people.

Unsustainable resource extraction rates is another problem that nations like China are working hard to mitigate. In general, unsustainable consumption is a problem inherent to capitalism and the ways it distributes resources and rewards waste.

It must also be said that Malthusianism was never meant to be an accurate theory of the relationship between population and resource use, and has never made an accurate prediction of reality.