David Loy brought up many great examples of climate emergency causes, but I want to specifically focus on overpopulation and capitalist means. As Loy mentioned, earth’s global population went up over three times what it was after World War II because humans wanted to make up for the lives that were lost during the war. However, we have far succeeded the numbers we wanted to obtain and are now facing the consequences. More population requires more resources, resources which we are already overusing. My finance teacher from high school explained that overpopulation isn’t an issue since newer…