Comment on Dr. Thanos, PhD.

minorkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• OldSageRick@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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  I guess so yes yes

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• Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Here’s a fun fact: if you’re one of those people who thinks killing people is the correct solution to the climate crisis, you should know that you only have to kill one American to get the same reduction in pollution as killing ten congonese people. Please use this information however you like.

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  • CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Here is another fun fact, killing people is one of the favorite deliberate mischaracterizations of the degrowth movement that advocates for a lower population through fewer births. Not murder. We don’t even have to force it. It’s hapening already if you look at birth rates.

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    • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Personally, My interpretation of degrowth is more bicycles and less plastic crap. I don’t think legislating birth rates will ever be an efficient strategy.

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      • heartSagan5@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        China would agree.

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      • CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It’s both fewer people and less consumption.

        No one said legislating neccessarily. We’re doing it now anyways. Most people have the sense that the future won’t be kind to their kids and choose to jave fewer/none.

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    • sparkyshocks@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s hapening already if you look at birth rates.

      That’s why I’m skeptical of degrowth actually doing something to effectively reduce consumption. Because some individuals consume 3, maybe 4 orders of magnitude more resources (and the accompanying pollution or ecological destruction, however you want to measure it), I’ve always believed that reducing population runs a significant risk that the remaining smaller population will use far more resources than the previous larger population.

      You see it in rich countries. We have low birth rates and high consumption rates, and our consumption grows exponentially even as our population does not. We run a serious risk of being very destructive childless retirees, and consumption and pollution and emissions and ecological impact need to still be worked on, even if we do shrink the population.

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  • architect@thelemmy.club ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Now do billionaires.

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• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Sure. Just don’t eat them.

  That’s junk food, and eating junk food is bad. Instead, compost and eat the veggies

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