It's interesting I just finished reading an article about a very similar topic on overpopulation that argues that we're past the point where we have enough land to feed the population using organic methods: https://open.substack.com/pub/depopulism/p/in-defense-of-eff...

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jraph 7 months ago | parent [-]

Wow, this post seems quite distrustful, to say the least.

For instance this shocking paragraph is backed only with YouTube comments on vlogs.

> Setting aside useful modern sex/gender mythologies, it is clear that men are interested in having sex and women are interested in having children. I am often struck by how broody many women are from an evolutionary perspective. Despite the significant risk placed by giving birth to a woman’s life, many of the most neurotically minded women that I know are absolutely obsessed with having children and satiating their craving for cuteness.8 It makes sense from an evolutionary perspective for such a genetic instinct to have been cultivated. How else could women be incentivized to bear the incredible risks of child birth?

You can't claim something this extraordinary without a solid study.

There's also a graph with a line interpolating a fog of points which could not clearly be interpolated like this.

I didn't find the claim you mentioned, searching "organic" didn't find anything. I was interested in knowing if it considered meat consumption. The word meat doesn't seem to appear. I probably wouldn't have trusted anything written there anyway.

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JSDevOps 7 months ago | parent [-]

There’s a cultural shift. Modern women don’t want kids until it’s too late. They want adventure. How this is going to play out later I don’t know.

	▲	jraph 7 months ago \| parent [-]
		The HN submission is about lands and fighting climate change. My main point was that the post is garbage (in addition to apparently not being related to what the commenter said about it), and my backing point was mainly that the (extraordinary) claims would need to be backed with solid evidence. But that last point is also true for contradicting statements. Especially the adventure one. I would think it's more related to studies, career and job stability, and not only for the women, but they indeed study more and have more paid jobs than a century ago. At this point I just won't take any "women want X" claim without strong evidence, too many of them have been stated only backed with intuition, which really doesn't work, because it's easy to introduce sexism (even if well-meaning) in such claims and we know there are strong biases around the topic (and let's be honest, the paragraph I quoted is plain sexism and completely disrespectful to the LGBT community, in addition to everybody else really - this link simply has nothing to do on HN if you ask me).