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Yeah, this is called the Malthusian perspective/fallacy/trap/etc., and it's bad logic based on worse data that the elitist groups love to wave around as gospel amongst themselves. Thankfully the refutations aren't scarce or complicated. Technological advancement (to include agricultural methods and techniques, not just fancy new inventions with microchips and such) has practically eliminated food scarcity in the vast majority of the world while sustaining an exponentially growing population, and the hunger and starvation that does persist is nearly all a direct result of multiple decades of devastating military intervention in Africa and the Middle East.

Populations of literally anything and everything that reproduce are subject to certain rules and behaviors, and humanity has every resource to find the least turbulent path from growth to equilibrium.

And if they think that intervening to "correct" the population growth is a good idea, it's going to be quite the spectacle when that pendulum comes swinging back around and hits them in the backside.

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