Comment on Resources
Iapetus@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
This study is dangerously stupid.
We are rapidly running out of resources for survival.
Global fresh water demand will exceed supply by 40% by 2030
90% of topsoil is at risk of depletion by 2050.
We are already over capacity on fresh water demand for the amount of humans alive on this planet.
Top soil is what food grows in. Without top soil we can’t grow food.
Billions of people will die this century. The planet cannot support any more people. Don’t have kids.
LoreleiSankTheShip@lemmy.ml 18 hours ago
No, we are not over capacity for survival. We waste a ton of water on stuff we don’t need, like having lawns in the desert or choosing to grow almonds during droughts when people have to ration water usage at home. . Top soil is the same, we could, collectively, switch from beef and to a lesser extent pork to focus on much more efficient chicken, thus freeing a lot of land used to feed livestock.
Stop this Malthusian nonsense, we have enough resources for everyone. They are just severely mismanaged to the point of killing us all. We could live sustainably if we wanted to, we just choose not to.
Iapetus@slrpnk.net 7 hours ago
There aren’t enough resources.
This complete overhaul of the structure of society that everybody in this thread is on about, is a fantasy that is not going to happen.
Stop believing in fairytales, they won’t save you from the world falling apart right in front of you.
leftytighty@slrpnk.net 2 hours ago
Fuck off with your capitalist realism. The same arguments could have been made with feudalism before it.
Maybe you lack the historical knowledge and imagination to imagine a better world but your personal failures aren’t reflective of “human nature.”
Iapetus@slrpnk.net 2 hours ago
Lmao, good luck with your revolution. I’m sure you won’t need it though, not if you just believe hard enough in the power of goodness and altruism.
One last point I’d like you to consider though, if we’re ignoring resource depletion and just how unsuitable humans are for perfect communism, as you so far have been; how do you plan on defying physics and turning the clock back on the catastrophic climate collapse we’re now in the end game for?
These are the words of world-famous mainstream scientist David Suzuki, and IPCC expert reviewer Peter Carter, telling us it is already too late. We are out of time.
Telling people to keep having kids and that the world can sustain billions more people than it currently does, is literally only making things worse for everyone as each new person born, adds massively to our carbon footprint.
So after all this evidence that I’ve presented you with, it’s now up to you. Are you an accelerationist who wants to make shit worse for everyone in the limited time we have left, or are you just really, really, REALLY fucking stupid.