User blog comment:PixCity/Overpopulation/@comment-28575580-20161124102850

Ah yes...the oft-circulated and none-too-insupportable claim of overpopulation.

I question whether or not this subject would make a good pasta. The most obvious issue of such a subject is that it forms part of speculative sociology and economics...and is a theory an apt subject for a pasta? A bit weighty, perhaps novel material but not pasta.

The most obvious way of handling the vast nature of the subject is the take the anime-apocalypse approach, viz., take the hero's-journey route by tracking the narrative of a lone person in an overpopulated world either on the brink of distruction or in the aftermath of disaster.

Which would make for a very predictable and boring story.

One must ask: is overpopulation a villain? No....unless you're willing to collectively classify 7.4 billion people as one nefarious entity. Overpopulation is not a villain, rather a situation...and situations lend themselves more to dystopian fiction, where we follow a character through his related experiences. Pasta trends to the simpler aspects of fiction, where we are told somethat that happened to a character. Overpopulation does not happen, it (supposedly) ''is. ''

All-in-all...reader retention becomes the largest issue when dealing with a subject like overpopulation. Because it is not inherently evil or innately bad, a writer has to "villify" it so-to-speak; and it becomes difficult to suspend disbelief for something like that.