cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/50324858
sigh Yeah sure, scientists surely said that like this…
I keep wondering how those Journalists from Daily Mail, Fox News, Bild etc. can look into the mirror each morning without punching themselves.
Dr. Thanos, PhD.
Submitted 1 week ago by FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
Juice@midwest.social 6 days ago
Jeffrey Epstein had LOTS Scientist friends. Stephen Pinker got “kicked off the island” after disagreeing with Epstein’s views on eugenics.
Science is impartial, scientific institutions are not
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 6 days ago
lots of money for their addictions.
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Journalists? I don’t think so.
minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
If we start with those that consume the most and pollute the most then we might not need half, right? So that means we start with the wealthiest, yes?
OldSageRick@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
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.
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.
architect@thelemmy.club 6 days ago
Now do billionaires.
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
Triasha@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Pretty sure we would he fine without the richest 1000.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 5 days ago
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Announce that in 90 days the richest $1000 will be publicly executed for the good of humanity.
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Watch as all the billionaire bastards scramble to dump a bunch of money into “humanitarian projects” to clean up their image & get out of the top 1000.
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90 days later, use financial data from the date of the announcement to pick the top 1000.
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FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
I agree,
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 5 days ago
this is an ecofascist position. our planet can be balanced if we adjust the way we live, the way we eat, and the way we treat eachother
maturelemontree@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
So you’re saying eat the rich? I’m on board!
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 5 days ago
yup!
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 5 days ago
It’s Daily Mail. Some scientist probably gave two options to fix things, either do better or suffer.
Earth’s human population will decline without direct action all on it’s own, one way or another. The alternative is the things you mentioned.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 days ago
… And when you say “adjust the way we live” you mean either stop breeding or go back to medieval standards of living
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
i don’t actually (at least not in full). the empires of the global north have already shifted their population standards, decreasing birthrates and experiencing longer lives. the issue is that the global north is also the part of the world that’s doing all the polluting and preventing the global south from gaining access to the education and resources that we enjoy. if we decolonize the earth, people will naturally make better decisions about their local environments and be more empowered to make better decisions about how to be and how to live.
additionally the land management techniques employed by the colonial powers are ATROCIOUS. the majority of north american farm lands that can produce food are used to grow feed for cattle. the cattle are then raised not in rangelands that could not otherwise support horticultural agriculture, but instead in small feedlots. you will note, i am not calling for universal veganism. ecoterianism usually shies away from going this far due to the question of rangelands. but do you know what most rangelands in north america are used for today? single family homes and golf courses. these are not sustainable patterns of behavior. if we shifted our diets to more grains, more ruffage, less meat, and abolished the institution of the HOA so more people could grow more of their own food, our current population could be sustained.
additionally, for all the technological advances we have made of late in the energy sector, even finding that land with solar panels on it can produce more agricultural output, much of the world still relies on coal fired electric plants. many of the hydroelectric dams that have been built and have already destroyed indigenous communities sit dormant. why? because global economic policy is largely determined by who owns what minerals beneath the earth. this is being exacerbated by placing data centers for high energy cost AI computations in inappropriate locations, driving people who are already struggling deeper into poverty.
there is so much waste in this economic system that is made simply because it makes the speculation markets grow. we can live without that waste. the reason we don’t is pure, simple, greed. and what it will take to undo is the power of the people gathering together to say “you may own the factories, the machines, and the land, but without our brains and muscles not a single wheel can turn.” We the people are capable of so much more than we give ourselves credit for and there’s so much room for improvement in this world that ecofascism seeks to ignore by reducing the problem down to just “there’s too many of us, and i can’t fathom adjusting how i live, so that’s it, that’s the end of it”
darkangelazuarl@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Or just a few hundred billionaires.
FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Yeah, I agree
Professorozone@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Crappy scientist. The planet doesn’t need saving. Humans do. It’ll do just fine without us.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 days ago
I always thought Thanos’ idea was stupid because his reasoning was about fighting over resources. Less people, more resources to go around.
How the fuck did he not think “I can wish for infinite resources?” Solves his issue with the universe and nobody gets turned into dust.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I mean, he was a villain.
Also, in the comic he did it because he was simping for death. Got ghosted for it too.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
It’s only an 5% of the population of first world countries which are the cause of the environment problems. Eliminating these + the scientists of this article would save the planet.
FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
I agree, let’s kill the chuds and the billionaires
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Trump: “Hold my Diet Coke!”
Scientists: “no not like that!”
msage@programming.dev 6 days ago
That’s why they’re not stopping global warming.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
Let’s just be on the safe side and make it an 8 billion reduction of humans.
NeilBru@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I know you’re joking, ::: spoiler spoiler Press X to Doubt :::, but what’s your plan when it comes time to “reduce” the children? Gas chambers? Firing squads? Strangle them as you look into their eyes?
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
We already elected Trump, Putin, Modi, Xi, Netanyahu. Phase one is done. Next phase: final world war, total annihilation. Give Earth another 1000 to 10.000 years to recover after humans have been wiped out.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Just fire up the lightsaber and start swinging.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 6 days ago
Is this a real article?
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 6 days ago
it’s daily and it’s mail.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 week ago
Half the population … or, like 50 billionaires.
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Sounds like the right time to bring back the choppy boys
grranibal@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
Bring the fancy cutlery hun’, meat is on the menu today
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
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