No. And you either know that and are strawmanning or are brainwashed into thinking excessive resource use equates to wellbeing.

There is a MASSIVE middle ground between overconsumption and excess consumerism, and actual poverty.

Pretending that any amount of scaling back consumption inevitably leads to mass poverty is intellectually dishonest, or just genuinely stupid.

Which are you?

hey man, why would you respond inflammatorily like this? can't we just discuss things in good faith?

but decrease how much each person has available as resources? Essentially just throwing a lot of people into poverty?

That is not implied. Especially if we consider that the resources we waste are through supply chains rather than our own direct use. If my electrical supply comes from from a more efficient source, then my usage can be less wasteful and potentially cheaper. If my city continues to improve public transport, I can actually save money and use less resources in daily transit. Products we consume have serious potential to conserve resources at a mass scale, and often it even saves them money due to paying less for resources needed in production. A lot of waste also comes from overproduction, think of those Dunkin' Donuts end-of-day-disposal videos. We make far more than we need in so many areas.

Furthermore, the most wasteful people are a minority of the mega-rich. You and I probably don't need to cut down much on jet fuel costs. People close to poverty usually aren't (directly) wasteful, hell, some of them actually reduce waste through dumpster-diving and recycling schemes.

It's not about decreasing how much each person has - quite the opposite, actually. It's about increasing the efficiency of how we distribute our resources so that more gets to those who need it because we already have far more than we need but most of it is wasted or artificially made scarce to increase profit.

The US throws away something like 60% of the food we produce annually while kids starve and politicians talk about getting rid of free lunches at schools.

The "overpopulation" fear is really just misdirection from the greedy few to keep the rest of us from questioning why we let them get away with everything.