From the video:

“while many people think that the world is overpopulated, no one can actually define overpopulation, making it difficult to prove or disprove.”

Overshoot is a more accurate term: that’s when a species exceeds the carrying capacity of its environment. It’s a combination of what we do and how many of us do it. Humans are 70% into overshoot and use the resources of 1.8 Earths.

“...the best they can do is point to examples such as traffic jams, homelessness, and long lines at the coffee shop, but these are not examples of global overpopulation these are examples of urban overcrowding.”

True, local crowding isn’t global overpopulation. When humans and our livestock comprise 96% of mammalian biomass, and wild mammals have been reduced to 4%, that’s global overpopulation.

“...cities by definition are places where very large numbers of people are deliberately grouped together. All these people make innovation, collaboration, and economic development possible.”

And corporate owners benefit from all three. Their exploited workers are rewarded with,

“...a higher cost of living...unemployment, homelessness, gangs, and other social evils... scarce parking, the trash, and the impossible traffic.”

However,

“...the promise of better jobs, prestigious schools, modern healthcare, and high culture calls people to leave the countryside and move to the city. As a result the cities are crowded...”

Sounds good, but people are often forced into urban areas as agricultural jobs are eliminated by automation, and when children from large families in rural areas become adults, they find few employment opportunities. The city beckons with the promise of jobs that too often become wage slavery, with pay too low for rent.

“...and the rest of the world is mostly empty space.”

Not really. The rest of the world supplies crowded cities with the resources they need, especially food. Agriculture already uses land the size of South America, and most recent deforestation is for pastures and plantations.

If the crowding is unbearable, you can move to Kansas, where the official long term unemployment rate averages 4.55% and the minimum wage is $7.25. Might have to live in a city in your car, though.