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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Kamala Harris’s Revealing Malthusian Malapropism

https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/07/kamala-harriss-revealing-malthu
sian-malapropism/

overpopulation,

Situation in which the number of individuals of a given species exceeds the number that its environment can sustain.



https://www.britannica.com/science/overpopulation



Overpopulation or overabundance is a phenomenon in which a species' population becomes larger than the carrying capacity of its environment. This may be caused by increased birth rates, lowered mortality rates, reduced predation or large scale migration, leading to an overabundant species and other animals in the ecosystem competing for food, space, and resources. The animals in an overpopulated area may then be forced to migrate to areas not typically inhabited, or die off without access to necessary resources.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overpopulation
Judgements regarding overpopulation always involve both facts and values. Animals often are judged overpopulated when their numbers cause impacts that people find dangerous, damaging, expensive, or otherwise harmful. Societies may be judged overpopulated when their human numbers cause impacts that degrade ecosystem services, decrease human health and well-being, or crowd other species out of existence.

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