Your analogy is idiotic, there is such a thing as carrying capacity. Those 6 billion people will need food, a quantity of which will not grow to feed a family of 4 on only a single acre. Forgetting the fact that only a fraction of available land in Texas is actually fertile. You can say goodbye to meat as there won’t be the land to raise livestock. Likewise there isn’t enough water in Texas to support 6 billion people. Groundwater will be completely depleted in months if not weeks rendering the entire state into a desert. The existence of dense urban centers isn’t because people can actually support themselves in them, but rather they are the result of productive surplus from society at large which allows for the concentration of population resources. Stick everyone in the world in Texas and everyone will be dead in a few weeks. Overpopulation is not a myth, it is simple biological fact. There is a finite capacity for the land to provide resources for individuals, a capacity that has been increased by the utilization of carbon fuels that is matched by increased demand. Social and cultural patterns are monumentally shaped by geography to a greater extent than most people imagine. There is a reason why urban areas are heavily Democratic and also why those same urban areas have very low birth rates. It is simply not conducive to raise a family in such dense areas and people subconsciously know this and have fewer children as a result.
See #109 regarding hyper-literal hermeneutics.
It is simply not conducive to raise a family in such dense areas and people subconsciously know this and have fewer children as a result.
So what's the problem? If people subconsciously recognize "overpopulation" and have fewer children as a result, then the problem is self-correcting, is it not? Why then does China "need" government nannies dictating how many children a family is allowed to have, and using abortionists to kill the excess?
The problem is not too many people. The problem is totalitarian dictatorships and socialism.
Cordially,