The Population Crisis is a Scam

There are currently over 8 billion people on the planet, the most the Earth has ever seen. It is the largest population in recorded history. Additionally, there are even concerns that there might be more people on the planet who are not formally reported, billions more to be exact.

Yet despite this large unprecedented number, we keep seeing articles and reading reports warning about the potential catastrophic effects of population decline and the falling fertility rates. This is fearmongering, and it's a dangerous lie.

What is really happening is that our current economic model, one built to enrich the already wealthy, is being threatened. The wealthy are used to systems that allow them to earn massive profits in the shortest possible time. But that model depends on constant population growth and an endless supply of poor people. As the saying goes, the comfort of the rich depends on an endless supply of the poor.

So what do they do? They use fear. They frighten people into believing that they won’t be able to retire, that there won’t be enough workers to sustain society not to mention that that there will be endless suffering. But the truth is, the problem is not the population, it's the unsustainable economic model we’ve adopted.

We didn’t have this panic when the global population was at 7 billion. We didn't panic at 6 billion people either. We are only hearing this now, not because of the actual number of people, but because the economy has been stretched and reshaped in a way that requires constant growth to survive. Any dip in the population threatens the whole system  not because of human or societal well-being, but because of greed and capitalism.

The model they’ve created cannot function unless there is a steady, even growing, supply of human labor: people to work, people to buy, people to consume. But no one is stopping to ask the most important question: How many people can the Earth realistically sustain? What is the planet’s carrying capacity?

We already cannot adequately feed the people who exist now. There are already millions of men, women and children on the planet who go to bed hungry every night.

Food insecurity is widespread. To keep up, greedy corporations have resorted to producing lab-grown meat and food products so filled with shelf preservatives and additives that are not optimal for the human body. In the United States even a piece of bread doesn’t crumble like real bread should, you crush it inside your palm and it will slowly unravel itself like an elastic band. Chickens are pumped with growth hormones just to meet demand. Fruits are a shell of themselves, they don't taste or even smell like fruits anymore.

There are simply too many people on the planet to feed. And yet, despite these warning signs, they continue to push for population growth  not for the sake of humanity, but to preserve their own wealth. 

Graduates are leaving school and not being able to acquire jobs, they aren't able to afford the rising costs of rent and food. The introduction of Artificial Intelligence is not only contributing to destroying the planet, it's taking away entry level jobs that graduates need to grow in their careers. This is driven by greedy corporations looking to cut costs to report millions in profit every financial year. This further calls to question as to why it is that there is so much alarm about the population decline. It's simply not about saving the human race.

There was even a rumour circulating saying that Elon Musk’s mother publicly stated that poor people should have more children not because she cares about them, but so her son can have more workers in his factories. Whilst this rumour is just that, propaganda. It calls to question how many of the people we deem as ‘elite’ do have this mentality even if they are not brazen enough to say it publicly.

This whole narrative about population decline and human extinction is false. It is designed to protect a system that depends on exploitation. For the wealthy to maintain their level of luxury, they need millions of people to extract money from  to exploit for labor, to sell to, to control. You cannot be comfortably rich in a world with a declining population.

Their wealth depends on numbers of the less fortunate. So of course they want more people. But again, no one is asking the real question: Can the planet even sustain this? If human population continues to proliferate, will there be space left for the other life that inhabits the planet, the marine life and the wildlife. Humans have already taken over a lot of areas that were once inhabited by animals and continue to expand into more areas essentially pushing out the animals from and destroying their habitats. How far do we intend to go in terms of expansion. When will we determine what solely belongs to the animals and what belongs to humans.

There is a report by the Economic Times that in Texas the massive data centers there have consumed so much of the water supply in the state they have begun to ask the residents to cut back on their showers. At this time Texas is already facing a drought, however the data centers are still allowed to consume the fresh water.

They are willing to tell citizens, the humans who need water to survive, remain clean and do business to feed their families, to take shorter showers, yet make no effort to reduce the damage caused by these facilities. That’s the awful inhumane imbalance we live in. In conclusion, I will reiterate that I believe the population crisis is a scam.

Citation

Buchanan, D. A. (2025, August 5). The Population Crisis is a Scam. https://dbu3hanan.github.io/Articles/The-Population-Crisis-is-a-scam

References

Desk, G. (2025, July 29). Texas AI centers guzzle 463 million gallons, now residents are asked to cut back on showers. The Economic Times. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/texas-ai-data-centers-water-usage-texas-ai-centers-guzzle-463-million-gallons-now-residents-are-asked-to-cut-back-on-showers-ai-news/articleshow/122983253.cms?from=mdr

Kennedy, J. (2025, May 31). Are there billions more people on Earth than we thought? If so, it’s no bad thing. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/31/earth-population-billions-decline-birthrate-west

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