Talk:Human overpopulation

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 15 February 2021 and 6 May 2021. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Yidaramirez.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 22:39, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

'Hypothetical'
I would like to debate the use of this word 'hypothetical' in the first line. ~ Basvossen (talk) 02:24, 14 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Agreed. The fact that it is a debate needs to be made more clear. too_muchcuriosity (talk) 19:02, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

Removed misleading graph -- 58.6 tonnes of Co2 per year per child
I think the graph is highly misleading. It was taken from a paper describing how textbooks fail to mention not having children as a way to reduce carbon footprint. The "56.8 tonnes", however, comes from the impact of all descendants averaged over the years in person's lifetime, and assumes that each descendant has the the same environmental impact as humans in wealthy countries in 2005. To me, this is obviously misleading so I removed it. If you disagree, please revert my edit and comment below. too_muchcuriosity (talk) 02:40, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

Epidemics and pandemics section is poorly written
This section has grammatical errors and it doesn't really make sense. It seems to contradict itself, and the source material it cites doesn't really make the claims mentioned in the second paragraph. 198.98.119.78 (talk) 04:47, 31 August 2023 (UTC)


 * I tried to fix the grammatical errors in the second paragraph. I read the source and agree that it doesn't make the claims mentioned in that paragraph. The last sentence of that paragraph also seems to be talking about a different subject. I think that whole paragraph should be either rewritten to match the source or removed.  23impartial (talk) 04:26, 9 November 2023 (UTC)