{"id":396420,"date":"2026-04-13T15:23:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T15:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/396420\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T15:23:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T15:23:53","slug":"we-need-to-talk-about-population-overshoot-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/396420\/","title":{"rendered":"We need to talk about population overshoot | Population"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Your article linking the decreasing birthrate with our housing crisis was infuriating to anyone familiar with the escalating global ecosystems collapse (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/01\/uk-birthrate-fix-housing-crisis-research\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Want to boost the UK\u2019s birthrate? Fix the housing crisis, research suggests, 1 April<\/a>). Recent research funded by Population Matters confirms that a sustainable global human population <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-03-global-human-population-earth.html\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">would be 2.5 billion<\/a>. The Earth Overshoot website reveals that Britain is overpopulated <a href=\"https:\/\/8billionangels.org\/earthovershoot\/country\/GBR.html\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">by nearly 50 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Growth economics, wealth inequality, patriarchy, colonialism, military supremacy, nationalism and pronatalism are all unwise behaviour patterns in global ecosystems collapse. These can all be categorised as a \u201cfluency\u201d response from our limbic system. Our limbic response is the reason that these unwise behaviour patterns persist; they bypass our critical thinking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">There are <a href=\"https:\/\/poemsforparliament.uk\/enhancing-ai-with-eco-wisdom\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wiser social paradigms<\/a> trying to emerge to replace the ecocidal norms of the past. Eco-aware family planning and economic degrowth are two of the emergent paradigms. Until we can talk honestly about population overshoot, the conversation will always degenerate into racist discussions about immigration. <br \/>Barbara Williams<br \/>Yarnton, Oxfordshire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your article linking the decreasing birthrate with our housing crisis was infuriating to anyone familiar with the escalating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,61,60,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-396420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}