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Overpopulation is not a real problem.
Places said to have “too many people” are places that have been exploited for their resources thus leaving the population in dire want.
This includes places where space has been commodified and so people move in densely together for lack of room.
“Overpopulation” is a cruel euphemism for the malevolent neglect of colonized people.
I would like to add that if you accept that the problem is overpopulation then you’re more or less saying that the solution is genocide instead of (for instance) the improvement of distribution and the socialization of local resources.
Note, this was a huge part of the British imperial government’s justification for allowing and worsening famine in their colonies.
The response to the potato blight and Irish Famine was to say it was because Irish Catholics were having too many children, even though any good farm land was English-owned and grew crops for export.
Similarly, when the Indian Famine happened (for many of the same reasons, English colonization and capital) Churchill replied by saying the native people shouldn’t “breed like rabbits”.
Famines perpetuated by English colonization killed millions, but yet this is not commonly recognized as a criminal past of an imperial state.
The idea of “overpopulation” transforms very real and material genocide into a socially Darwinistic process of nature. So that the murdering class can say of its victims “What a shame, but they should have known better than to try to exist in this economy.”