73 Eight Billion is Too Many: Don’t be a Twit About Overpopulation

<p class="p1"><span class="s1">While Elon Musk erroneously claims population collapse is our biggest worry, world population is hitting 8 billion, adding the latest billion faster than any time in history. The UN has declared world population will surpass 8 billion on November 15, 2022. We persist in adding about 80 million people to the planet every year, despite overwhelming evidence we’ve outgrown our planet.</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Christopher Tucker, author of <em>A Planet of 3 Billion: Mapping Humanity’s Long History of Ecological Destruction and Finding Our Way to a Resilient Future</em>, joins Dave in a conversation intended to help cure the rampant overshoot illiteracy resulting from misguided silence on the subject. This illiteracy is demonstrated as Dave shares his new YouTube video (link below) about the 8 billion milestone.</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Tucker shares his disappointment in United Nations messaging around World Population Day (July 11) and the 8 billion milestone, and Dave turns his criticism up to eleven. He makes this important point about the silence on overshoot and overpopulation:</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">If responsible people don’t talk about these issues, irresponsible people will – and they’ll spread disinformation and perpetuate the negative attitudes we want to avoid.</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">The conversation also turns to coercive pronatalism, a topic that may be new to some listeners. It’s surprisingly pervasive.</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"> <br /></span><span class= "s1"><strong>LINKS:</strong></span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><em>8 Billion is Too Many: Don’t be a Twit About Overpopulation</em> - by Dave Gardner on Medium<br /></span><span class="s1">(we’ll post this link here later today)</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"> </span><span class= "s1"><em>World Population Hits 8 Billion: What Do People on the Street Think?</em> - new YouTube video by Dave Gardner<br /></span><span c