The idea of overpopulation has influenced the political spectrum immensely on both the left and the right. People from all backgrounds consider this idea to be fact, though there is very little hard evidence to support it. Indeed, I know libertarians, independents, republicans, socialists and democrats who share this unwarranted fear. The amount of damage that these political pundits have done to making any progress on real issues, such as climate change and animal cruelty, cannot be overstated. Instead of analyzing the facts, celebrity shock journalists and their guru friends have profited immensely off of the fake idea that the world will end by 2050. Interestingly enough, the first prediction for the planets end was made by the Reverend Thomas Malthus, who stated that the world would end in the 1980s. So, we went from the 1980s being the apocalypse to the 2050s being the apocalypse. Was any hard data provided for this sudden change? Very little. A random study by the Global Health initiative stated that the world would end in 2050. However, this study was based on faulty math and a misunderstanding of the world's resources, and how they are distributed. Did you know, for example, that food scarcity is myth? There is more than enough food for everyone on the planet. The United States and the European Union could rid the world of hunger today. How? Western nations waste 2.2 million pounds of food annually. A quarter of that food could fee every hungry person on the planet. But surely there is not enough land to support 9 billion people. That is what the faulty report from the global health initiative claims anyway. However, the world's population today, which stands at about 7.5 billion, could fit in the state of Texas, each person with a townhouse and about 1,000 acres. Wow, that's a pretty comfortable apocalypse. We will still undoubtedly hear the lies, the lies of scarcity of resources are quite popular amongst authoritarians because, after all, authoritarians hoard their nation's resources as their own, and lying about a lack of resources is how they maintain control. You are not allowed to have doomsday fantasies. You are not allowed to go around scaring people when problems don't even exist. And you are especially not allowed to sell people products based on the false narrative that the world is coming to an end. There is no proof that the world will end. It is all conjecture. No one even knows what the end of the world would look like. Every religion or secular spiritualist has some sort of theory about the apocalypse, and they are all just as stupid as the next. Stories of alien invasions, demons and other spiritual new wage nonsense is very closely linked to the overpopulation myth. But what of Bill Gates you say. Wasn't he right about coronavirus? Sure, he was right about the pandemic, but he is incorrect about overpopulation. There have plenty of times where we people who do good things for others are just plain wrong. Bill Gates knows a lot about vaccines, and I support his efforts to vaccinate poor nations. However, that does not mean that he is always right. You should know that Bill Gates can be wrong, considering the fact that your latest Microsoft update may very well be destroying your computer. If Gates can't even get his own software right, how the hell does he know that the world is overpopulated? As I have stated over and over again, having money does not mean that you are infallible. All it means is that you are lucky. I will no longer entertain the overpopulation myth. I will no longer be nice and spare people the embarrassment of being wrong. I can't do that. That is what got us here in the first place. This lie of overpopulation, if it goes unchecked, will lead to another genocide. It is the cannon fodder that the right needs to kill of those they dislike. I will not allow them to have this luxury. I will not be a party to myth developed to exterminate me. Will you? Image: Devin Justensen