Never heard that one before

It's regularly trotted out here in Australia, laughably they say our environmental party, The Greens are really be pro environment because they support immigration.

I had several arguments in Mastodon during the last federal elections on that very issue.

It hurts THEIR environment. How can they have their ideal environment of a suburban home in a cul-de-sac if the neighbor isn't white? (And maybe also because they can't afford to buy a house with all the billionaires hoarding everything, but mostly that guy in particular not being white)

Imagine if it was possible for humans to eat something else :(

More than ⅔ of avian biomass is livestock, too.

Exactly. We are populated to a point where there is little option but to rely on oil extraction to create enough fertilizer to feed 8 billion people.

Admitting that we have an issue with overpopulation does not necessarily justify gutting social programs and accelerating the demise of the poor. Rather it should inspire us to consider the best path forward - increased access to birth control and education, improved farming methods, reducing the amount of nature we impinge upon, accepting that perpetual GDP growth is not sustainable and moving towards an economic system that emphasizes quality of life.

Terrific. That should be a post of its own.

Thing is, immigration needs to be done in a controlled, orderly way. People who come here need to integrate into society. But that's not what is happening, in fact, literally the opposite. Europe does not control whatsoever who comes in and the member countries have no plans how to integrate them and many migrants don't really show the will to integrate, either. This leads to the formation of parallel societies with the same problematic cultures and values from the countries the migrants fled from. We don't need this kind of immigration, that's why a lot of people are against it.

Orgalorg!

Statistics can in fact be intentionally skewed to favour bigoted viewpoints. Even without changing the observed data, it can often be done just by reframing the conclusions.

The tiger would prefer if the immigrants were overpopulated someplace far away from the tiger.

The only way I can see that making any sense is if it's immigration into a very resource-poor area. Maybe a desert or tundra? I guess Las Vegas comes to mind, it's overpopulated for what is naturally found there. Areas like the Sahara desert especially.

Other than that kind of very specific circumstance, definitely racist.

I mean, we are overpopulated

No. The problem ISN'T that there's too many people. The problem is that rich people and rich countries are hogging almost all the resources so there's not enough to go around.

You're doing exactly what the meme is warning against.

the solution is just to have fewer kids

While that's probably a good idea for most on the micro (specific family) scale, on a macro (country, continent, planet) scale, it does almost nothing compared to better resource distribution.

us older folks will suffer the consequences of less young people to care for us in our old age

That's ALSO more of a distribution problem: with better compensation and working conditions, more people of all ages who are themselves healthy enough to do the job would care for seniors professionally, and with better social service budgets, more seniors would be able to afford it.

Moreover, people in other professions having fewer working hours and better pay per hour would allow them the time and economic breathing room to better care for their family members in their free time, which would mean fewer offspring per family would be needed for it

but after that's over, things could be pretty nice for the planet.

No. The resource hogging rich people would still be poisoning everything by perpetuating reliance on fossil fuels and other genocidal economic behaviors.

Every single problem attributed to overpopulation can be solved by distributing resources away from corporations and billionaires towards things that actually improve the well-being of humans in general AND the planet.

Pretending otherwise is helping the oppressive elite whether you intend to or not.

I'm OK with excluding billionaires from humanity. I am not a perfect person.