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You can keep building up or building out, adding more and more concrete... either way at some point you're going to run out of land, or water, or power, or food, or something else.



What is your alternative to house the population? Tent encampments? More wars/disease? Death squads?

Humans have a right to housing. Saying "no more housing" but not thinking through the rest of the consequences, because you are personally reliably housed, is not a solution that a society should consider even momentarily.

Refusing to house people today because at some unspecified point after we have many many more people, is not even remotely logical, ethical, or a solution to any problem.


Where do you think this ends?

At some point we'll destroy the planet and then nobody will be housed.


Crucial factor: building housing does not change the population. Population growth comes from people having children, not from physical structures.

If your "solution" is to stop building housing, you have absolutely no solution, you just want to make people suffer.

The real solution is already happening: give women control over their bodies, economic control over their own futures, give women education and ensure that women have political power in society. That along with industrialization is how to stop population growth in its tracks.

Additionally, different types of housing have vastly different environmental impacts. Detached housing with yards is environmentally disastrous, particularly when in the woods, for people that take part in normal society. Multiunit housing takes far less materials, water, heating/cooling, and as importantly it allows loving with less transportation requirements, greatly enhancing quality of life while using less energy.

I think I've spelled out my solution to this fairy well. If yours is anything other than "make people homeless" i would love to hear it, or if you have any defense of your non-solution to ever increasing population, I'd love to hear it.


> Crucial factor: building housing does not change the population. Population growth comes from people having children, not from physical structures.

Look up induced demand.

People think our roads are too crowded, so they build even more roads. Then the roads are more clear, so people drive more. So the roads get more crowded and we build more roads...

I'm only having one child, partly because of the cost. If we burn down more of the planet to make it cheaper to have a second child, people will do that. Then people will complain it's too expensive so we need to burn down more of the planet to make it cheaper again. Then people will have three children because it's cheap...

Burn, burn, burn.


I believe we're soon reaching the point where the world population will actually start to shrink - I'm not sure that running out of land would be a problem (at least not in the US)




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