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r/overpopulation
Overpopulation: unending growth on our finite planet is impossible.
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We are growing relentlessly, carrying out deforestation and eradication of other species, exhausting fish stocks, using up our resources to the limit and competing over what remains. Instead of converting a diversified biomass into more and more humans who will intensify the process, let's aim for a lower, stable, more mature population. We have the means, we need the will.
Planetary impact ≈ Consumption × Population
The growth of our human population will eventually end somehow, whether we want it or not. But how will it happen? We can stop growing deliberately, of our own accord. Or we can let circumstances beyond our control stop us under conditions much more ...
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17,322
Total Comments
71,055
Earliest Submission
May 15, 2009
Earliest Comment
May 15, 2009
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Rank↕ | Word↕ | Occurrences in Subreddit | Total Occurrences | Rate in Subreddit (per 1M words) | Rate in Reddit (per 1M words) | Ratio (Sub Rate / Reddit Rate) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | 1,557 | 72,879 | 3401.4 | 0.6 | 5597.17 | |
| #2 | 224 | 17,268 | 489.4 | 0.1 | 3398.51 | |
| #3 | 448 | 80,186 | 978.7 | 0.7 | 1463.73 | |
| #4 | 177 | 34,546 | 386.7 | 0.3 | 1342.33 | |
| #5 | 192 | 38,187 | 419.4 | 0.3 | 1317.25 | |
| #6 | 98 | 29,225 | 214.1 | 0.2 | 878.52 | |
| #7 | 224 | 82,635 | 489.4 | 0.7 | 710.18 | |
| #8 | 45 | 16,926 | 98.3 | 0.1 | 696.53 | |
| #9 | 38 | 16,189 | 83.0 | 0.1 | 614.96 | |
| #10 | 59 | 25,166 | 128.9 | 0.2 | 614.21 | |
| #11 | 62 | 31,169 | 135.4 | 0.3 | 521.14 | |
| #12 | 41 | 25,448 | 89.6 | 0.2 | 422.10 | |
| #13 | 41 | 27,743 | 89.6 | 0.2 | 387.18 | |
| #14 | 30 | 20,804 | 65.5 | 0.2 | 377.80 | |
| #15 | 85 | 62,842 | 185.7 | 0.5 | 354.37 | |
| #16 | 115 | 104,504 | 251.2 | 0.9 | 288.30 | |
| #17 | 34 | 33,200 | 74.3 | 0.3 | 268.30 | |
| #18 | 34 | 35,762 | 74.3 | 0.3 | 249.08 | |
| #19 | 128 | 163,666 | 279.6 | 1.4 | 204.90 | |
| #20 | 30 | 38,450 | 65.5 | 0.3 | 204.41 | |
| #21 | 224 | 355,641 | 489.4 | 3.0 | 165.01 | |
| #22 | 45 | 81,628 | 98.3 | 0.7 | 144.43 | |
| #23 | 2,861 | 5,477,322 | 6250.2 | 45.7 | 136.85 | |
| #24 | 224 | 459,519 | 489.4 | 3.8 | 127.71 | |
| #25 | 281 | 583,592 | 613.9 | 4.9 | 126.15 | |
| #26 | 67 | 140,847 | 146.4 | 1.2 | 124.63 | |
| #27 | 33 | 76,255 | 72.1 | 0.6 | 113.38 | |
| #28 | 130 | 305,442 | 284.0 | 2.5 | 111.51 | |
| #29 | 46 | 110,539 | 100.5 | 0.9 | 109.02 | |
| #30 | 198 | 530,916 | 432.6 | 4.4 | 97.71 | |
| #31 | 50 | 134,997 | 109.2 | 1.1 | 97.03 | |
| #32 | 30 | 83,014 | 65.5 | 0.7 | 94.68 | |
| #33 | 87 | 241,265 | 190.1 | 2.0 | 94.47 | |
| #34 | 38 | 112,161 | 83.0 | 0.9 | 88.76 | |
| #35 | 910 | 2,744,762 | 1988.0 | 22.9 | 86.86 | |
| #36 | 95 | 289,799 | 207.5 | 2.4 | 85.88 | |
| #37 | 85 | 270,132 | 185.7 | 2.3 | 82.44 | |
| #38 | 30 | 102,542 | 65.5 | 0.9 | 76.65 | |
| #39 | 54 | 187,703 | 118.0 | 1.6 | 75.37 | |
| #40 | 70 | 245,144 | 152.9 | 2.0 | 74.81 | |
| #41 | 773 | 2,811,980 | 1688.7 | 23.4 | 72.02 | |
| #42 | 115 | 431,003 | 251.2 | 3.6 | 69.90 | |
| #43 | 83 | 315,556 | 181.3 | 2.6 | 68.91 | |
| #44 | 128 | 492,258 | 279.6 | 4.1 | 68.12 | |
| #45 | 101 | 396,693 | 220.6 | 3.3 | 66.70 | |
| #46 | 45 | 181,264 | 98.3 | 1.5 | 65.04 | |
| #47 | 58 | 233,747 | 126.7 | 1.9 | 65.01 | |
| #48 | 87 | 363,208 | 190.1 | 3.0 | 62.75 | |
| #49 | 119 | 506,955 | 260.0 | 4.2 | 61.50 | |
| #50 | 52 | 237,299 | 113.6 | 2.0 | 57.41 |