Comment on New Delhi - during lockdown vs now

• jlow@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Snap for all the cars to disappear!

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• SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Getting rid of half the population or half the refineries would accomplish the same thing right?

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  • Seleni@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The problem is mathematically it just doesn’t work. Humans are too good at reproducing. We’d be back in force before too long.

    No, the only way is more death note style, taking out billionaires and some of their bootlicking buddies, and those who put profit over the planet’s health. It’s perfectly possible for the rest of us to patch things up—we almost did it with the ozone—until guess who decided they wanted to throw money around to force us to stop.

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    • huppakee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I think we humans have grown to a population size where anyone’s profit hurting the planets health should be stopped. We need to take protecting the planet’s (in some ways fragile) ecosystem as serious as we take protecting children against abuse for example. Future generations will have to learn or we will find out together what fucking around gets us.

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  • huppakee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If the half of the population includes the part that owns cars perhaps, but the carbon footprint of a person varries greatly. In general the more money someone has the higher the burden they are on the climate.

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    • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Oil is used in the production and transportation of food.

      Also fertilizer.

      And the plastic that keeps the medical system running.

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      • huppakee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        My point is only that not every person on the world has equal access to those things.

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      • Thorned_Rose@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You know that there ate Eco friendly alternatives right? And we could have had them sooner, more variety and better technology if it hadn’t been for the oil barrons suppressing anything not crude oil based.

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  • Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Idk, I feel like targeting living beings is different than targeting structures, even though I know a sudden lack of refined oil would lead to death. I’m just convinced they’ll never stop until their own heat deaths.

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    • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Just the collapse of the medical system alone due to the missing plastics would kill millions.

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      • Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Aye, so its a rock and a hard place then. At least when it comes to solutions like these.

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      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You can make plastics out of corn and soybean oil

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  • kettuli@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They don’t refine oil for people to consume it, they refine oil to generate shareholder value.

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    • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Do they just dump it in a big hole and profit?

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      • kettuli@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Probably, I don’t know.

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