"Pack your shit folks..we're going away." Gawd I miss Carlin.

"Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body." -George Carlin

@@Omni0404 WHat comedy special is that line from?

Earth wanted plastic, but didn't know how to make it herself. So she made us and now that there's plastic we're not needed anymore

"The planet is fucked , the people are more fucked" ~ me

Seconded

Ooh, I’ve heard about the “joy” of traveling by train in Mumbai. You are basically forced to smell other people because you’re literally stuck in their armpits.

We need to decentralise population from Metro cities to smaller villages and towns otherwise in few years people will struggle to breathe.

Idiocracy happening 400 years earlier. Educated have stopped producing & idiots are producing as if there is no tomorrow. So ultimately idiots will rule the world & they have already started.

Do us a favor

The west doesn't want you to stop them from getting cheap labour.

Yeah but Bill will be the same liberal who says that we shouldn’t enforce our immigration laws and let millions of people in .

You lacked the backing. And, now that it is too late, it comes cheaper.

I think he has been saying this for years.

A lot of these places don't even offer bonuses to those retail workers who are actually selling the products. Those quarterly sales quotas were just to make the OWNERS more money, not the employees.

Your experience is a major tactic that most capitalistic ventures force on their employees that produces major employee dissolution, and stress, that destroys job satisfaction. Result: Job performance actually suffers over the long term, and consumers rebel against the high pressure tactics to sell them products they may not actually want or need. Your experience, and assessment are so correct!

We have it all wrong. It’s not about being the best. It’s not a competition. It’s not about having the most. It’s about quality. And our lifestyles affect natural animals and nature itself. This is life that’s essential. Exploitation and destruction is the cause of the impending mass extinction. $ is not life.

Same story with a company I deal with in logistics. They had "30% growth last year" and in their attempt to grow at least another 30% this year misallocated most of their money and effort and can't meet demand or keep up with that desired growth.

Because Wall St. only looks at short term results and it's all part of their game to get people to trade more so they can charge transactional fees and whatnot. However, in a competitive market, growth is very important lest you lose market share to competitors, but there is a point where a particular niche more or less reaches steady state.

They earn their billions by people who consume. AKA Don't get facts from those with a vested interest!

THIS ☝️

@@user-jy3zl2vp4b my argument all along! Why do we need to consume so unnecessarily? We’re being misled.

Space mining is the future.

Or you have guys like John Kerry the so called climate expert that has put out over 300 tons of CO2 this year

no it doesn't... Japan's population is collapsing and they're worse off now, there's to many old retired people and not enough young people to work and pay taxes to support the old people. Young people are having to work longer hours and retirement age is getting pushed back further cause such a small amount of young people is needing to support such a high amount of elderly people.

@@dean9620 you have completely missed the big picture. think of it like downsizing a company, people get slashed at first and it's hard, like what's happening with twitter, but its necessary for survival.

​@@dean9620Japanese people have always worked very hard. Their population is still huge and house prices are crazy.

Except may those for employers who support both overpopulation and/or overimmigration, to thereby flood labor pools and get away with freezing real wages well below inflation rates. Most Democrats AND Republicans are certainly on board with that too; more people means more services that then need bi-partisan action, which invariably results in larger voter pools and more chances for re-elections.

@@dean9620 Bringing life into existence is unethical. Life is suffering.

because we have a system where shareholder value is paramount - unfortunately investors want more and more growth, every year into infinity or else it's not a considered a valuable investment. Too bad the days of just investing in a solid company are gone - a sizeable chunk of society isn't satisfied with a reasonable return. They want riches and they want it now! We are gluttons.

If you ever ask how much will satisfy the answer will always be more.

You keep on questioning authority, you have my full support. The question you asked, is the kind of question that is asking…why specifically are we doing this, and apparently the adults, and, or our “betters” at work don’t have an answer or have never questioned at all. You keep doing you👍😎

And I doubt they mentioned a raise

The answer is that it is a Ponzi scheme.

I was thinking of the same quote.

Well that's what humans are in relation to this planet.

That's also mentioned in the matrix movie by androids that humans are a parasite

Shame on you for pushing an agenda that someone else is using to deliberately decieve just for a buck.

@@Natasha-nu4fk What agenda is that?

Or.....North Dakota?

@@seanwickham8905 North Dakota?, maybe. Ii was thinking more like Ketchikan Alaska....lots of trees, glacier fed rivers, open spaces...My child hood nature retreat of Suttle lake OR. was ravaged by a monster forest-fire, a few years ago, I breifly revisited Oregon in the summer, I was shocked to see Mt. Hood bare of snow, looking like a giant lump of brown dirt....lakes I've plied devoid of water, yes it has changed. As an older guy, I have the benefit of time to notice the changes of the past five decades. Unfortunately, Ketchikan Alaska has those giant cruise-ships that stop by....no doubt the locals feel like the proverbial chimpanzees behind the glass...

Once again blame corporate developers such as Black Rock/Black Stone all in bed with the government we saw the same in AZ. Now there’s not enough water yet they just allowed a big developer to build a huge water park in their hotel… Really? The little guy can’t water his garden to grow food but big corp can build massive water parks! It’s not the people it’s the government and I don’t care. who you vote for dem or rep they are all the same!

@@pmstff700 But it IS the people, whether watering your garden or a corporate bigwig building a water-park...it's all the same. It really doesn't matter in the long term as the water is slowly but surely running out. And as the Colorado river runs dry before ever getting to the Mexican border, this "running dry" point along the river will only keep going upriver until it strikes a major cities only source of water...once passed that point, the panic will slowly take shape.

@@AndieBlack13... interesting take. I too am an older guy. Mid 60s. I live in southern Illinois and have definitely noticed changes in seasons. Especially winter and spring. We dont have a lack of water problem (yet) but states like Texas are eyeballing our rivers and wanting to siphon it off to raise their beef. Btw, I have no children. How many consumers have you offered up for Mr Elon Musk?

Yes. No conservatives or religious nuts should be allowed in. We're already over quota.

Why would more immigration lead to more worldwide population growth? If the world plays its cards right, immigration leads to less poverty in the developing world, which in turn decreases birth rates.

@@veganlion8662^^^

@@veganlion8662it also means people want to move in, be successful, consume more, etc. That’s not going to go away, but at least let’s not add any more people to the equation

The equation is planetary and migration reduces that.

@@annaku_lickalicious do you not (honestly) understand the different connotations? Yes… technically “living” and “alive” are synonyms. No, they are not the same thing.

That you Richard?

@Anonymous Bosch i understand he's point but he's wrong. people are both being "kept alive" longer in the way he means but people are also active longer than they were a few decades ago. yes medical advances may keep someone alive who is basically a vegetable but they also let others live fulfilling lives for longer.

We are living no differently than in the days of Plato who said a Philosopher-King should be a minimum age of 65, quite stupid remark if folk never lived that long on the regular. .

A self-aware AI will take care of all of this.

As are many other Americans. The birth rate is down to 1.7, and has been declining for years now. Millennial's only have a birth rate of 1. Depopulation will happen before the end of the century.

@@jazer426zzzz7 Same here. Having a family wasn't in the cards for me.

@@jazer426zzzz7 You forgot that Western governments are bringing in breeders from other countries at an unparalleled speed, under the guise of "refugees", "migrants", and "foreign workers", and "family of", and "birth tourism".

Canada has it worse. 90% of our country is completely uninhabitable. You can't farm the north pole.

Theodore Roosevelt Nation Park is wonderful. Other than that though...

@@taekwondotime On the other hand, In the near future it could be the last place cool enough for aquaculture farming.

​@@GeekonaBike Even if Canada warms up from global warming (which it is) there's still the problem of no sunlight as you go farther north. Imagine living in a place where the sun never comes up. The farther you get from the equator, the less sunlight you get. Although people in Canada are used to it, I remember getting off a plane from Florida to Toronto in January and remembering how the sun went from being this bright yellow circle to a tiny little white dot lower down in the sky. The difference is enormous.

@@taekwondotime Yet somehow Canada manages to be the 5th largest producer of wheat in the world.

If that were true then people would move to North Dakota

OMG, decades ago most people knew each neighbor by name! No mobs rushing thru the streets either. `It must have been Hell on Earth!´ 🤣

Yep the corporate model we must grow--grow Husband used to work for Autozone in 2017 the stock was $700/share--look at what it is today $2100/share He was the store manager all he saw was dwindling growth and playing games with employees not firing them but reducing their hours on the schedule every week until they quit--he knows those stock numbers are an artificial bubble they created

Facts

Think the earth is overpopulated? Ok, then please see yourself out.

@@rickmorty5215 Just stop the collectivists and it will sort itself out....the weak were never meant to survive...Natures law, not ours..

@@rickmorty5215 Think the earth's resources are infinite to sustain perpetual growth of one organism that continues to wipe out all other lifeforms in its industrialized wake of insatiable greed? You too can see yourself out. Nothing on a defined sphere is infinite, except maybe ignorance & denial.

The channel Life Where I'm From had a really good video about rural tea farmers in Japan. They definitely aren't very welcoming of letting in new people (western or Japanese) and the communities don't grow when the median age is 60. It's hard to blame them when the best case scenario is break-even earnings, dismal marriage prospects, and a life time of manual labor. When the elderly do pass and leave the land to their children they don't want to sell it or live/work on it so it often just falls into disrepair.

Yeah so. Get out of Coastal CA cities and it is just a sea of rural poor.

Yeah Japan will be okay. I know younger generations will complain about supporting the older generations. But I don't want to hear their complaining. I'm not a boomer, but gen x, but both boomers and us did the right thing by having less kids than prior generations like the Silent generation. We are leaving you all with more resources, so stop complaining. Now if we could get the 3rd world to get their birth rates down to Japan's and South Korea, or even America's. But I don't see that happening. What I do see happening is the 3rd world simply overrunning 1st world countries. Bangladesh is the big one. Their population is enormous, but much of the land will be underwater in 2100. Those people have to go somewhere.

@@donaldkasper8346 you don't hit real rural poor till you get passed Denver and get into Kansas.

@@jimmym3352 You're leaving the world with less minds to solve problems. I wouldn't pat myself on the back if I were a boomer or Gen X'er, and not just for population. At least Gen X can say they were never identity-obsessed, which is a plus in their favor.

Similar to other dying breeds. Men hunt the strongest animals and leave the weak.

If you haven't, check out the movie "Idiocrscy". The 1st 5 mins seem to have been written by your acquaintance.

@@tonysmith8163 beat me to that one. It's a movie that came out in 2005. The whole premise of the movie is showing what the world will look like in 500 years "if current trends continue."

Ha ha did you do that Biden gibberish on purpose smart people vs poor people? trust me there are smart economicly challenged people and absolutely there are dumb ass trust fund babies. Rich and poor as well as educated and illiterate all have an instinctual desire to procreate. Ild be more inclined to agree that ugly introverted people keep themselves occupied.

The solution to the above comment, the birth control pill, or the Nuva Ring

Same here in Pembrokeshire. In fact, the Presbyterian Church of Wales is kicking an 85 year old woman out of the house she rented from them for nearly 30 years so they can sell it , no doubt to some city person looking for a holiday retreat. How very Christian of them.

You have no clue clue how about you guys do that too much lol I love ya ya know I got a a ton Crane and ya I know what I’m saying is right there and and I

@@enfys6493 that's organized religion for you.

Human greed and stupidity. Again.

in the states they advertise cars for $90,000.

10 years ago financial capitalism nearly destroyed the US and global economy in an orgy of reckless, crooked deals. The _government_ pays for by working taxpayers, bailed them out and rescued the system. But still there's a goldfish who has forgotten 2009 but quotes 1970...

"Put the free market in charge of clean air, and in a week people would have to pay for air or otherwise they'd die." - Someone who is not a complete simp for unregulated capitalism, but understands that both government and corporations are necessary *and* need to be restrained.

@@doubleextreme3143 but the clean air will cost less than current inflation much less other taxes.

Right on!!!

How many times on the past when Bill is bitching about Millennials and Gen Z, and complains that they're not reproducing fast enough?

Bill, if the world ends it won't be because of "climate change". Stop with the bull shit about climate change, you are more sensible and reasonable than that. It is not a crisis, it is not a reason to get hysterical about. The climate has and will always change, it has been changing since the beginning of time. There is no evidence that the climate change today is any different from climate change 100 years ago, of 200 years ago. Remember the ice age? When the whole earth was covered in a thick layer of ice and migrants from Asia we're able to cross from one continent to another over an ocean because of the Bering strait being frozen over? Yeah, the earth has gone through much worse phases of climate change than this current one, long before industrialization or pollution or any other anthropogenic cause. For a liberal, you are usually supremely rational, why indulge the far-left, green cultists and environmentalist whack jobs on this issue. I mean only morons like Alexandria Ocasio Cortez believe the world will end in ten years because of climate change, get real. The real thing you should be worried about is the imminent threat of global nuclear annihilation and a nuclear Holocaust, because apparently Russia hasn't learned it's lesson from the Cuban Missile Crisis and is more than willing to casually issue threats of nuclear strikes over something as trivial as territory they lost 30 years prior.

Not drew- There's a lot of futuristic disasters that got here sooner than we thought.

That was a great book. The setting is the 23rd century. People have been fucking a lot.

If he believed this so much, why is he living?

Economic models are fake news.

@@jimbob498 He had no choice coming to this world, but he made a choice not to have kids. That's enough contribution.

@@jimbob498 This is my favorite idiot statement. Please next talk about how we can fit the whole worlds population into TX.

Capitalism is the best. It only needs 1.5x more people every generation to cover the fact that it is a ponzi scheme.

Thankfully that's not very likely to happen. Innovation is currently at an outrageous rate with more technology comes greater efficiency and at current rates it far exceeds population growth. If your interested in what humanities future may look like, watch science and futurism with Isaac Arthur

@@ethannorman739 oh darn. I was looking forward to the crackers. Remember, Soylent green day is Tuesday!!😲

@@ethannorman739 (Norman the Normal Man that No Man, Nor Manual, Normally Ignores is Formally Nordic and Formerly from Normandy? 😁 Pls excuse my crazy) I really like science; I'm a scientist myself, just not by occupation. However... Far too many times, that which is good, ethical, and even liked by many, has been destructively overrun in the name of "science"/"efficiency". The current climate change crises was carelessly caused almost concretely by coal, oil, and natural gas, which science said to use, yet didn't always care about it's effects on waterways, animals, the air, ground, and eventually humans who's resources come from all those things. (K alit. ×7) I still suspect those sudden sinkholes, some worldwide cities showing several, may stem from "scientific" sites that suck up oil from the ground, changing the geology & seismology of those areas for a LONG time. (S alit. ×12) I don't want humanity to stop marching toward the future, but at the same time, don't trample what's good in that march. --J

@@jeyruff429People definitely need to think more about the conservation of the environment, but usually when ecological disaster's happened it wasn't really the technology or humanity as a whole that was at fault but, usually the greed and short sighted foolishness of a few individuals. Also although coal, oil, and gas are far from perfect they are the only thing keeping humanity advancing. In a relatively short time we'll replace them but they have in no small way created a much easier life for almost every human on the planet and that in my mind is worth any temporary negative impact they had.

@@ethannorman739 I must apologize; I cannot believe I forgot to mention my appreciation for fossil fuels, and the many workers who's blood, sweat, and years of tears in that industry gave the USA and the rest of the world such a better life. I am very grateful, and I wish more of any "green warriors" would feel & express the same. YET.... Fossil fuels are NOT the _only_ thing central to human advancement. Science existed well before their discovery (in this case, wood & wax don't count as fossil fuels). You're correct (hopefully) on their replacement in a short time; the agreement we need to reach is: What is too short, and what is too long? They should also acknowledge the workers in the fossil fuel industry, and offer special transfer help to them and their immediate children who want to get into the renewable industry. Lastly, you hit a keyword at the end there: "temporary". Plenty of evidence shows that the effects of human-consumed fossil fuels ARE NOT as temporary as we'd need them to be to avoid significantly negative consequences to us humans. .... Well, _YOU_ humans. I'm an alien. Peace out, Earthlings! 👽✌️ --J

Definitely

Nah.

So true

Yes that was gold!

That was good 😆😜

We have more resources now than ever before

@@vinnydurham8964 ya and it still not enough Caus we also have more people now than ever before

​@@mokhtarchali7019 we have enough we are just wasteful. Famine is lower now than any time in history. Resources aren't running out

@@vinnydurham8964 We have more PEOPLE than ever before

Then how about you stop consuming for ten or twenty so that someone who wants to have a kid can have one and you don’t try to CONTROL basic human activities like reproduction, you wish the government to be out of drugs and sexuality but not reproduction, get your test done, you will be positive for cult

I wasn’t amazed that he said it, but was amazed that anyone said it.

Tenet

This was all disproved in the eighties. Musk is 100% right.

Try Peter Zeihan’s “The End of the World is Just the Beginning”. It’s alarming for different reasons than one would think, refreshingly plain speaking, and well thought out. (He also discusses when he’s been wrong via YT, which is a nice change!). He does address climate change in the most interesting, and I think open, way I’ve seen so far.

The end really is near then. I can't believe "Christians" don't seem to care about climate change despite it being a sign of the end times. Only Jesus can save us and while that's always been true, it rings more true now than ever before.

I’m sorry but I must disagree with that statement. It’s obvious that the problem lies with those on the “ground” because they are the ones who can’t stop reproducing while those in their “towers” are only exploiting that need… the people in the “towers” usually don’t have a lot of babies hence why they are living there…

Buisness man don't give a fuck about shortages. They are like an alcoholic person who comes to his senses when he has done too much damage.

Reminds me of the inscription on the Georgia Guidestones, to limit the population to 500,000,000 worldwide and leave room for nature. But of course, those inscriptions made sense, so the whole structure was bombed by some lunatic and dismantled. Never underestimate the power of ignorance and stupidity.

@@Factonise Many times, even this is not enough, and someone else has to "bring them to their senses" since they are no longer capable of it.

@@user-hf2dr7sh4y Yeah, Mother Nature has been trying to do this for decades, but the CCP suffers from the same disease as all dictators - they think they are above the law. They may be above man-made laws but have not yet realized that no one is above natural laws.

It is not common sense that is becoming less common. it is the ability for people to "reason" and figure out reality, that is being destroyed in our schools.

sad indeed

Probably because no developed nation is growing in population from its native population.

Spot on right. The majority of morons mimic the demented corporate aging politicians who are completely out of touch with reality. Greed is good and screw everyone else which means screw the environment and God. Then they say we can fix it when They can't.

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Interestingly, Soylent Green (1973) was set in the year 2022 ! And did you notice that the climate was hot, dry, dusty, and windy? The term global warming didn't exist then, but the film is eerily spot on about so many things, like drought, food shortages, homelessness, civil unrest, street crime, assisted suicide and corporate government 😮

I think he'd do so as well, but the eye roll would be for a different reason in my eyes. That reason being Bill is spinning it in a "the planet and nature is fucked", which George would not agree with, given his clear monologues on the topic, with his most famous and repeated line being "The earth will be just fine, but the people... the people are fucked." And to that, I couldn't agree more with George on the topic. He's spot on. The earth is going to be perfectly fine. It's humanity that's literally voluntarily suiciding itself from existence and into extinction.

@@TheCriminalViolin I stand corrected. George was in fact taking the mickey out of the 'save the planet' people. Indeed, the planet will fine - and likely glad to be rid of us!

He goes where the money is...that's all....long-term thinking makes any turn that has a dollar sign...

What long term thinking? Mam, USAs total fertility is below 2. Among white population, the fertility is at 1.6. Very low. USAs population growth is sustained by Asian Americans and Hispanic population. At this rate, I long term, USAs population will become older on average. World in general and USA in particular, needs many kids.

@@TheCriminalViolin "perfectly fine" in geological terms. Carlin was making a joke. Ecosystems and the billions of species on those will suffer just as us, for several generations. Don't pretend you didn't understood that

if we are truly concerned about the environment we should wipe out all of africa india and china.

I never noticed it until I had adult housemates, most people are basically overgrown children and incredibly wasteful. Ruining large batches of food because they can't wait to finish cooking before getting drunk. Taking way too much then dumping out half a plate or more. Not just food, they are suckers for shiny packages and disposable garbage products. I had to convince everyone I know that I don't believe in gift exchange, because I was tired of my trash being filled with useless overpriced shit.

Yes we need to ration fat wasteful human beings for the good of the environment and put them on a steady diet of bugs

You are right. But I would like to add the wastage of food would be more of a concern in that regard.

More importantly, in my opinion, the consumption of animal products, where animal agriculture is incredibly resource-inefficient.

planned obsolescence .. it's good for business not for the planet ..

Yes! I buy, sell and repair Macbook pros (Becca's Macs on FB 2000 members) and I still use my 2009 iMac--its not limited at all! It is a TANK! The Mac Pros up to 2012 can still replace hard drives, batteries, fans and ram etc. The new Mac Pros NOTHING can be replaced, when they break they are throw away buy a new one I can't sell 2014 pros anymore everyone says "they're too old" I reply with I have a 2010 15" pro I use everyday to run my business and a 2009 iMac for the home--what is it little Timmy can't do on a 2014? Well my business has gone under now where for the last 10 yrs I made enough in profit to live off and hired 1 employee--the throw away culture has ended my business!!

Yo, you're a champ. I have one of those tvs too, and I totally use it for my atari 2600. Great minds think alike :)

Absolutely!!! Same for washing machines, dish washers etc..

I would say it is our ravenous appetite for the ease and convenience the big corporations and their products offer. It is definitely a symbiotic downward spiral.

Forests and wetlands that produce drinking water and keep the soil fertile. We have water in Florida because a tenth of the state is a swamp. And it is more like a fifteenth.

If you are talking about outer space forget it? we are no closer to colonizing any other planets then we ever have been. that's an Elon Musk pipe dream.

It *is* America's mission statement! And the mantra of the tech industry. "Let's keep kids addicted to social media, let's keep everyone thinking they need a new iPhone every 6 months, let's keep replacing human jobs with machines, let's keep piling up plastic & metal garbage infinitely.... Haven't thought any of this through, but good for business in the short-term." 👍

America isn't where the high rate of population increases are happening however.

If that was the case, US founders wouldn't hav made a system that's based on checks and balances,and not having an individual r individual branch of govt having absolute power etc!!

@@mnoble247 no but its where humanity perfected the art of unbridled greed!

@@slh950 And rampant overconsumption!

@j. dragon Let me ask you, do you want a welfare state or ANY kind of social programs? Well you cannot logically support Bill Maher's position on this. Since decreasing birthrates means that there'll be less young people, and thusly a hell of a lot less tax payers to actually pay for the programs you people desire. You can say goodbye to just about any government program if birthrates continue to decline. This is the problem with all the childless and birthrate collapse loving leftists. They're actively supporting the death of the possibility of a welfare state. Since these people are usually upper middle class, and thusly them having more birthrates means there'll be a more taxable workforce. The only way to make a state function long-term without replacement level birthrates, is to either get rid of every spending program and go down the road of full laissez faire capitalist bullshit, or to go towards some dystopian hellhole where you'll never get to retire, and get shot when you can't work anymore.

Have you ever bought a digital item?

You're literally describing propaganda. It's funny how the same people that force the borders open to import cheap labor also pressure anyone educated not to reproduce.

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You are correct sir!

Yep

Indeed.

Capitalism baby!

To think that any of that is infinitely sustainable is far more absurd. Like food is the only issue here. 🙄

Why would it be selfish there’s nothing wrong with loving children and having alot

I was on birth control and had 5 (two sets of twins) celibacy and sterilization since -I never thought this could happen

@@brandonjade2146 why? Because that’s a lot of fucking mouths to feed.

@@pickplayer8347 people should be allowed to have as much kids as they want man

As a former foster child I feel very similar. I won't have any biological children, because there are already enough people on this world. I am however more than willing to foster children that are already here.

One of the ugly truths I learned in economics 101 is that capitalism requires (indeed, it creates) desperate workers who are willing to work cheap. I see a future America, balkenised into seas of obscene poverty dotted by fortified islands of obscene wealth 😢

If we could change our culture and way of thinking, it would solve 90% of our problems before we ever got to govt policy.

Ok when Obama stops building homes on the water , Kerry stops flying private-then I will worry

@K Ham ....when they stop space tourism.

@@kham6006 Yeah, because these are major issues 🙄

@@ranndino When the literal outcry of climate change is based on "Seas rising" and "CO2 emissions", it's a very major issue. Why build a seafront home if the sea will supposedly swallow it up in a few years? Why not utilize zoom to hold climate conferences instead of multiple private flights by each delegate to sit in a room and complain about the very emissions they are attributing to? The hypocrisy in the actions far outweighs the words they use to fearmonger.

Good thought But Market economy will collapse with sustainability.

Overconsolidation is the problem. Stop letting the oligarchy shift the blame onto you for their own misdeeds. They manufacture scarcity.

Maybe so, but if the growth of the population out paces the reduced use of resources by each individual, consumption continues to increase on a defined planet with limited resources. If I'm driving a fifty-year-old car, it may burn more fuel than a hybrid, but due to the demand of more consumers & advances in production capabilities, there are millions more hybrids & humans on the road than there ever was of my car fifty years ago. Is that real progress, or just denial to justify the continued spread of the cancer known as man?

They gotta own the libs by destroying the planet

@@erichancock6815 We are not a cancer, but on a natural expansion due to available resources. Inevitably, the expansion begins to contract when we outpace the resources. It happens constantly as a design of nature.

Ew. That's too many plastic people.

L.A. city is not 12 million. NYC doesn't even have 12 million. L.A. city is a little over 4 million. L.A. County may be 12 million. The metro area I believe is over 15 million.

Source on the number please.

Yes and it is a shyte hole from hell as a result

Not city. Metropolitan statistical area. 2020 U.S. Census says MSA is 13.2 million. City is 3.973 million. It’s a lot of people. New York City has just over 20 million in the Metropolitan statistical area and 8.8 million in the actual city.

The politically incorrect answer is: modern medicine does not allow sick people to die.

Or thinking to themselves "There are far too many humans on this planet."

@@germanevision modern medicine extends lives and that's not always a good thing.

@@brandocalrissian3294 We’ll be turning off your life support then!

In 1960 there were fewer than 100000 80+ year olds in the U.S. There are 2-3 Million alive today in the U.S. The fertility rate is 25% what it was in 1960. The population is growing older. Look at our last two geriatric presidents.

Because first worlders are just as dumb as third world people, but have cell phones.

People care, in fact 81+ million people cared and believe in climate change and conservation and alternative energy and curbing waste and pollution and consumption. It's the dirty, corrupt politicians who are 100% willing to burn tomorrow to stay warm today!

That problem is temporary. Economies adjust, and over time the nation will reach a new equilibrium as lower birth rates means less elderly when that generation ages.

That's a problem of fountain-of-youth obsessed people. Normal biological longevity is reproductive age. Any year past that should be seen as a blessing, not be a demand for governments to fulfil!

Yup, demographic curves are predicting more old people than young,Mèxico has being predicting this in its own country and not much is being done despite knowing

that's because our grandparents didn't have access to birth control and had 14 kids (like my grandparents). The children from these large families are now in their 50s, 60s and 70s. This will balance out when this generation is gone.

@@hayimemaishtee as I recall, back in the eighties the average woman in Mexico had about five kids. Now it is half that, and the country is much more prosperous. That is no coincidence. Same with China. Chairman Mao rewarded families who had many children. Many starved. When they enacted their one child policy they began to prosper. A simple calculation will show that if they had maintained the population growth rate of the time the introduced the one child policy, they would have added approximately the same number of people currently in the US to their current population. It should be noted that the US is the third most populated country in the world.

EXACTLY. too many people both cause the problem, and suffer the effects. Why isn't that obvious?

Not sure where you’ve been but population is almost the only thing they brought up for years. More recently there has been more sophisticated push back on that flawed Malthusian notion.

Yes because they have shout sight. All want to breed children to occupy their vacuous lives.

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So how do we reduce population?

Complaining about our "predilection to f***" is funny coming from a man who was a frequent guest at the Playboy Mansion when Hugh Hefner was alive.

@@rimshot2270 He is in the comedy business. The problem lies in policy. All “western” nations have birth rates hovering at around 1.7 per couple I believe, it’s just that the governments are deep in debt therefore requiring population increases to service the debt which is why immigration from poor countries is pushed. In poor countries having lots of kids is what gives the elderly security in retirement

@@jamesbuscher701 If he wants to criticize governments, which is his right, he must accept the right of other people to criticize him. He thinks he is more than a comic, no matter what he says.

Well, if you think "overpopulation" is a real problem... ...then you'll be very happy to learn that our Malthusian "Elite" *have **_already done something_** about it!* If you haven't caught on yet, you will...

@@rimshot2270 Maybe he made sure those young ladies practiced birth control. You're just jealous cause he got laid by beautiful women.

Get rid of the almonds-first step

thats because of how yall vote

No people had kids in small towns and they moved to the city's and imagination targeted city's. And so on and so on .

California's had too many people since the turn of the century - the 19th century!

@@mytrashguypa Nope.

Refreshing isn’t it. Love Bill Maher he is brilliant and honest and fearless!!

So proud of Bill Maher he is brave bright and fearless. Love him more every day !!

Ok. Did he also explain how he wants to solve the problems of those who have the most children? They don't have retirement money, no health insurance. They have to rely on many children. As long as we only have morons pointing out the problem but not having a solution, we're just a bunch of idiots acting smart. Do you still think this was a great move from Maher or did he just fill a few minutes of talking time saying nothing? And the Duracell monkeys just keep on clapping 😂

@@h.g.buddne ...you make a good point. Perhaps the message needs to first get across, then the solutions? This is such a taboo subject in the first place.

You are shockingly naive

The population goal for the planet is 500 million. It makes sense if we never leave the planet.

@@chaschristiansen That goal of 500,000,000 was inscribed on the Georgia Guidestones, which was bombed and dismantled about three weeks ago. It's why I have no hope for the future of our species. The powers of ignorance, stupidity and greed are just too entrenched.

@@donmiller2908 Bombed? You sure about that?

@@donmiller2908 you thinks it's not the greedy who want population decline? It's our most elite that think they will be the survivors. Elites all have children and pass policy making children and life in general consistently more complicated. This won't end with a decline in world population just a restructuring of world dominance and a return to lots of war.

@@donmiller2908 ahh yes. 500 million white people you mean. Oh please. The earth can sustain around 80 to 100 billion people before we would need to find a way to replace the resources we used up. By then, we would have had more innovations in recycling and food science. We'll be fine.

That's like trying to see a lions reflection in tree bark at the zoo. Leftist are blindfolded cult members with their fingers in there ears wishing to punch phantoms in the face because the TV told them to.

@Russ Ingram He's the least rich among "the rich". You should focus on the 1%, look at the Forbes Billionnaire list, that's a start.

Does china still have that 1-2 kid law? Maybe the world will do that in the future Or maybe make it so you have to make a certain amount of money to be able to have more than 2 kids

I always have thought that people having 3+ kids is selfish, even with money there is not time for individual attention plus the demanding resources for our planet...

No: don’t get caught in the new dogma.

@@jeffreydurm Let me ask you, do you want a welfare state or ANY kind of social programs? Well you cannot logically support Bill Maher's position on this. Since decreasing birthrates means that there'll be less young people, and thusly a hell of a lot less tax payers to actually pay for the programs you people desire. You can say goodbye to just about any government program if birthrates continue to decline. This is the problem with all the childless and birthrate collapse loving leftists. They're actively supporting the death of the possibility of a welfare state. Since these people are usually upper middle class, and thusly them having more birthrates means there'll be a more taxable workforce. The only way to make a state function long-term without replacement level birthrates, is to either get rid of every spending program and go down the road of full laissez faire capitalist bullshit, or to go towards some dystopian hellhole where you'll never get to retire, and get shot when you can't work anymore.

@@Autconscipatheonive I appreciate your insight. To your point global population growth is not necessarily aligned with global birth rate.

really?

Religion just wants members... that's why they are against birth control and abortion. The catholic church is a big cult that keeps many chained into the vicious circle of compulsion repetition. Humanity is doomed. I have given up on humanity and I consider myself divorced from humanity.

Dumb take.

That's a straw-man. We could support many more, with sane infrastructure, which could only happen under different economics than our current vampiric capitalism (which isn't at all a "free market").

Uh, do know how long it took the US to add 100,000,000 people? It took 100 years literally. And the droughts that are happening are not because of an increase in population mostly, but mostly because of climate change due to global warming. But because of climate change, huge parts of the west including California are about to become deserts. It will take about 10-20 years to happen, but it is going to happen.

@@rabbit251 And that's mostly because of oil and industry, hence capitalism.

According to the census bureau the population was 226 million in 1980 and 331 million in 2020. That’s more than 100 million in forty years. But we have a lot of undocumented people which makes the climb even higher. Also your correct that capitalism is a factor because it raises the quality of life for the masses and that is why people come here. Socialism creates hardship and does decrease population but that is not a smart solution to population growth

@@oscarbauer1322 How exactly does socialism create hardship? The US started socialism under FDR with works programs and social security and later added Medicare and Medicaid under Johnson. How have any of those programs created hardship? Europe and Japan have adopted even broader versions of socialism to ensure that everyone is cared for with including national health insurance. Perhaps you don't understand what socialism is?

Please tell this to Canadians...because we are literally doing this through our stupid immigration policies. What Bill Maher just said here would be considered racist in Canada. What is happening? Well finite resources like: homes, food, cars are seeing insane price hikes in Canada. Not to mention the carbon footprint of bringing someone from a third-world country to here would dramatically increase their carbon footprint. Our healthcare system is failing, our highway infrastructure stalling - the govt refuses to build more, but keeps bringing in a record number of people. The defense is..."well, we need someone to do these crappy jobs that locals will not do for garbage tier wages...let them immigrants do it", so we have insane wage stagnation. Result is: a crumbling infrastructure with insanely unaffordable life, do not come to Canada.

The wealthy want the poor to keep breeding. That way poor kids fight in the wars and work the dangerous jobs so the children of the wealthy don't have to.

My buddy in Texas worked for a company that built suburbs and his whole job was going out to sites where they were chopping down forests to pave it over. He made gooood money but he quit after six months because he got depressed.

What the hell are you talking about? Are you really that naive? China is a huge country, they have more wild spaces than human spaces. China is becoming the top super power in the world because partly because of their population. The big problem with the US is that our government doesn't give two craps about its people

Worse still, why would we want to turn into Bangladesh? A place with a higher population density than China?

breed the children - africa.

its gone from 1billion to 8 billion in 100 years too

Once I found out that if you make 41k a year you are in the top 3% of the richest people on the planet. That's when I realized those wealthy they are always calling greedy and making everybody elses life suck and want to take it from them, is us.....3 billion live on less than 1000 dollars a year...

@@barrywalls7175 it was 1.86 billion in 1922 with some estimates as high as 2 billion. Still 4x in one century is crazy.

Yup, no matter what we do, much of the world keeps breeding. And then we import their excess population to have more taxable youths to provide for our elderly. Just like we import their carbon emitted products so that we don't have to emit it here. Well, that's what you get with a population that's 50% frauds and 50% assholes.

@@xsuploader mother nature corrects problems if you let her. Infertility rates increase but mankind has found ways around that. Homosexuality increases but they two want children ,they can use surrogacy or if it's two women get spent donor.natural disasters diseases, and unfortunately suicide rates along with murder increase.

It is deliberate. if people are hungry and desperate they are easier to control. Bill Gates has bought a huge amount of farmland in the US.

Not True !!!!

@@mickyboymccoy7632: It's closer to truth than fiction. America consumes 25% more energy per capita, than all other nations. That number also reflects the massive amounts of energy consumed by the largest military the world has ever seen, the U.S. military, spread across the globe with over 800 admitted military bases. Which that in itself would be dangerous consumption, but coupled with the actual energy consumption of war, which the U.S. is engaged in everyday somewhere around the world, you can easily see how it all adds up. And while America represents less than 5% of the world's population, it incarcerates 25% of the world's prisoners. That's another factual statistic that I have no doubt you'll object to, but is none the less true.

@@Vanderearden We also produce a lot of that energy and use it to feed and clothe people all over the world. What are we supposed to do? "Sacrifice" and live like Third World peasants? That won't do any good. Life is not a zero-sum game.

@@rimshot2270: I'm not even sure how to respond to your misguided ideas. While America has been the global leader in pumping oil for 8 years, it is NOT the leader in oil production. Hence, the skyrocketing price of fuel, a lack of refinement production. That and good old fashioned price gouging, done under the cover of inflation. America hasn't built a refinery since 1979, and in that time has lost half a dozen facilities due to aging out and catastrophic damage. Oil is useless unless it's refined into fuel, and right now, America's remaining refineries are running at max capacity, creating an artificial shortage due to a staggering lack of refining capacity. By design. And this idea that America feeds and clothes the poor around the world is a ludicrous myth. America can't even feed, cloth and house it's own. America is sanctioning over 35 countries. Ask the poor folks of Somalia, Yemen, Uganda, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Syria, Libya, etc. how helpful America has been to them. After 20 years and 6 trillion dollars spent in Afghanistan, helping those people, America immediately slapped sanctions on them when departing. America is now actively starving to death the very people they claimed to be helping for 20 years. It's time to put to bed this idea of "American Exceptionalism". America is in a death spiral and none of these grandiose myths are gonna save it until American citizens wake up to the reality of America's failing imperialism.

@@Vanderearden Folks in the USA may use 25% more energy per person than say those in India etc. with our Washers and Dryers and such. But we don't use 25% of worlds global energy or contribute 25% of the earth pollution. Now go home and get your shine-box!!

Also helps that Malthus was a pseusocientfic moron and all his predictions turned out to be the opposite of reality. Elites love him though.

I've been convinced for almost 60 years it's the one main problem we're not concerned about but should be. Nothing has changed in all that time.

I think. Bush and his friends have decided, they have enough now.

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The reverse is also true. Lots of people who are saying "we need more people" are implying "we need more people like me so we can defeat the people who are not like me"

Correct.

@@Odima16 Loser.

What about people saying that to be alive is an amazing gift? And the data that shows that with more people, we have more food and less poverty than ever before - and not from stealing lol. From productivity and innovation - created by... people :) wonderful people. There is some merit maybe to some of this, until it gets practical, who is not allowed to have kids, or forced abortions etc. ugly real quick

@@cordeauxboi cornucopian b*llsh*t. As he pointed out. Limited potable water and resources for growing food. One child is good, two are enough, zero is great.

Populations India and China don't give a F what Bill says. Overpopulation has literally NOTHING to do with the west, where we are literally declining in population... This was one of Bill's worst takes of all time. And you are not smart for liking it.

We aren't running out of water. The planet is covered in it

Water doesn't run out - it's literally a cycle. The only thing you can run out of are sources of clean water (if you destroy them or decrease the amount of precipitation that ends up in reservoirs). And finally, since the population of every western nation is simultaneously below replacement level right now, even after being floated by immigrants who still have a lot of kids, we can stop pushing our kids to be sterile already.

Global Extraction... Explain...? If we extract iron ore to make steel, does in magically disappear, after the steel is made... If we are running out of water, enlighten us on where its running too... ? Is it too disappearing? Society is certainly not running out of morons... and fools... God save us... So your solution, is say more Nazism and Communism, where ideologies as such kills millions... Or how about, doubling the annual abortion rates, too 100-120 million murdered souls. This the greatest of human genocides... More God damned selfish fear mongering... Lower the excess population, so there's more for you. Are you willing too give up your place at the dinner table? Instead of your insistence on someone else giving up theirs. You left wing environmentalist, think alike. The lot of you are brainwashed by the same, end of the world bullshit... The earth will go on... make no mistake... However the Meek will inherit it, not a ship of fools...

@@merc9nine Freshwaster, genius. We're nowhere close to a desalination process that is economically scaleable to a world of 12, 14, 16 billion people. Not to mention, that's one of about 20 global-scale problems by rapid population explosion.

Where? In the US? There's plenty of replacements streaming in from the southern border. Are you saying they don't count? Are they the wrong color? They may not replace one for one as in education status and credentials but they are mouths to feed you know. Since the border will NEVER be protected to the degree necessary, I would say (again) that we do not have a replacement problem as the 3rd world baby factories have an endless supply. With sanctuary cities and states sweetening the pot, who wouldn't want to come here?

He addressed the Musk reasoning in the vid

Yes. I legitimately think that certain religious groups that emphasize the “go forth and procreate” bit as part of their religion are doing it deliberately, for a reason. They know fully well that sane people are not going to convert to their beliefs. And the old guard is dying off. So, the only way they are going to sustain their church is to have a boatload of kids, who a) are much easier to teach belief systems to than adults who already have one, and b) don’t have a choice where they get sent to church.

@@011angelfire but that same bible contains this: Ecclesiastes 4:3 - "But better than both is the one who has never been born, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun." Job 3:16 - "Why wasn't I buried like a stillborn child, like a baby who never lives to see the light?" Matthew 26:24 - "For the Son of Man must die, as the Scriptures declared long ago. But how terrible it will be for the one who betrays him. It would be far better for that man if he had never been born!" The problem with the bible is that it contains about 700 contradictions. you can always find a verse to abuse for your own cause, therefore I argue the bible is an illegitimate source when used in an argument.

You’re gonna realize when your old, you made a horrible mistake. Nothing to do with religion, everything to do with care.

The argument that overpopulation harms this delicate planet falls on deaf ears when those sheep have been indoctrinated to believe that a world created by all-powerful mythical sky people, specifically for man, cannot be harmed by man, which is also why such narrow, brainwashed minds don't believe in the damaging effects of climate change. Ignorant denial is the only infinite resource of cultist sheep.

Don't get bullied. It aint for everyone.

Other option is virus by design. It's created havoc so far.

Except after every war there's a population boom. And the countries with the highest birth rate are countries with famine.

@@LLandS18 They have have famine because of the rich nations

War isn't nature

@@PriorityDonk war is human

But this is just one small area when you consider the millions of acres of land around the world. Cities are overcrowded so don't live there. It is common sense and logic which we have a generation of people now who have no idea what that is. It is truly sad to think there are millions of people out there who have no idea what to do if and when they have no cell phone, no electricity, no running water, no Walmart to get food from, no nothing in the cities. Can you imagine what the chaos and confusion will be happening when this happens? Why aren't people thinking about this scenario? Move away from these overcrowded polluted cities with poisoned water and prepackaged food full of chemicals and preservatives rhat are killing us with cancer and heart disease and diabetes and obesity. Run away to the country and learn how to plant a garden and how to live without electricity and cell phones like my parents and grandparents did. I'm so ad and blessed I was taught how to live that way. Parents need to teach their kids about this survival type living by camping and showing them how to survive without the things they believe they cannot survive without before it's too late.

@@debradale6305 Urbanization has saved nature, if everyone lived in the country the countryside would be f@#cked.

You are a typical left wing liberal not wanting kids thank goodness future generation is going to be more traditional and conservative.

Good your line should go extinct

Thank you for not spreading your dna. You may not know it but if you just go east a little......there are millions of acres of unused land still to this day.

yup. This is the narrative ordered by few (and Bill bought that) to squeeze out more from the population to gain full control over them and all of the resources. Without the greed of these few, the the entire population is better off. Nature takes care of its living beings as always.

@@Maranville the messenger’s lifestyle contradicts his own message thus making his message either hypocritical or irrelevant. Do as I say, not as I do.

Vadium, The problem isn't rich people, it's 3rd world people having all the babies.

@@Maranville 1. when you are a complete and utter hypocrite and lecture people, your message will fall on deaf ears. 2. Even if you are able to get through to people, the next argument is the idiocy of Maher simultaneously advocating for GIANT government handouts and then wanting to shrink the next generations population to the extent that they cannot be paid for.

@@Maranville re-read my response. I gave you a crystal clear answer in #2 of my comment. Only a simpleton looks at one issue in a vacuum, that is not how the world works. Simultaneously promoting giant socialist government handouts and shrinking the population is pure idiocy. If you disagree, address this point DIRECTLY, don’t avoid it. Also acknowledge Mahers disgusting hypocrisy as well and how that prevents what could be a good message from being received by enough people to make any difference.