Is it normal that the majority of people don't care about overpopulation?

You realise the majority of the people on this website come from countries with Sub-replacement fertility? That means the birth rate is lower than is required to maintain the current population number, which leads to a shrinking and ageing population. According to the UN, 48% of the world's population live in countries with SRF.

However, migration to countries with SRF is high because they tend to be countries with higher standards of living, education and the lowest mortality rates. Countries with the highest birth rates are almost always those with the highest mortality rates, worst standards of living and the poorest education. Migration increases the net population of many SRF countries, despite the fact that the original population is declining, and so the net population grows.

Basically what I'm saying is that:

- Most of us on this site live in countries where the fertility rate is lower than required to maintain the current population (so accusing people of 'not caring about overpopulation' and implying they are exacerbating a problem when they choose to have a couple of kids is just retarded)
- We currently produce enough food to feed every single person on earth (it just doesn't get to every single person on earth).
- Education, economic stability and growth, access to medical care, a strong democratic government (or similar national union) are what the poorest countries need to thrive. If those countries had what we have, the rapid population expansion in these areas (specifically parts of Africa and Asia) would slow and stop. 'Overpopulation' isn't the cause of most of the problems you cited, however ("war, genocide, homicide, pain, depression, corruption, poverty and famine").
- We couldn't go "30 to 80 (maybe more) years without having kids"! Especially not 80+ that's fucking ridiculous. We'd die out! How the hell did you think that made sense?

I am compelled to discuss this but i have a feeling you wouldn't like what i have to say because of what happened last time i commented on a post you made like this.

I think it's fine if people care about overpopulation and the environment and, because of that, refrain from having many kids.

I don't expect people to neglect their own happiness for the sake of the environment. Humans are programmed to want to have kids, and it isn't necessarily the easiest thing to do to find some interest that gives your life meaning.

It seems, you are coming from a place where it seems easy to just choose not to have kids and find something else to do, and I think that requires some affluence.
How about poor people who do not have access to birth control and abortion clinics? Perhaps, many are not even aware of how overpopulated the world is.

I think it requires some level of prosperity for someone to care so much about the environment. It means you have the surplus energy to do so. If it seemed that your sole means of survival were to work in some job in an environmentally unfriendly industry, and one of your few joys was the thought that your kids might grow up to have a better life, you might think otherwise.

In my opinion, you are making the mistake of thinking that the thing you find important, is objectively important and therefore should be important to everyone else.
Why not just say that humans are finally able to use up all the resources the planet has to offer, and as a species live like there is no tomorrow? We, who are here now, are not going to live forever anyway, so why not just seize the day?
I'm not saying people should do that, I like the idea of treating the environment well. I'm saying that caring for the nature and the environment is not objectively good.

Regarding eugenics, the problem is that you make ideas about the future of the human species more important than the people who are here now.

Why worry about a problem that contains its own solution? Eventually the world population will decrease, probably pretty drastically in a short period of time.

Yes, it's normal that most people in the world don't care about overpopulation. I believe they are the same individuals increasing our worldwide population and I don't get an impression they are terribly concerned about it.

In Canada, a place with a lot of room for a lot of people (technically, even though I like it as it is), the death rate exceeds the birth rate. Our population growth depends on wealthy, well-educated immigrants who come from places of the world with already massive populations. I'm not sure why I added that.

I am one of the people that care. Unfortunately there is nothing we can do about that, except if world war 3 happened.

Contries I would like to be destroyed are France, china, India, Islamic contries, then we there would finally be peace.

So if it takes killing off all humans to "save the planet" there would be no one around with the awareness that it was saved in the first place.

I feel EXACTLY the same way you do. It's no coincidence nature is shrinking in the pace humanity is growing. Nature has it's ways of sorting over population out (MASSIVE famines for example), but preventing those would be VERY sensible I think.

Nature has it's ways of sorting over population out, most people don't seem to understand the strain it is causing though.

Can't control population by deliberately killing off 80% of the people like the eugenecists want to do.

I've only had one son for the moment i wish for him to have a little brother or sister preferably a sister but i was thinking that if he has another borther then i will try for another sister but stop at 3.

Don't worry about it. In our lifetime, it won't be an issue. Nature has its way of controlling over population.
I still see thousands of miles of unpopulated land between California, Oregon and Nevada. Once those areas start to fill in, then you can begin to complain and worry.