• acargitz@lemmy.ca
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    20 days ago

    Scientists argue that the indiscriminate use of Earth’s resources by humans has led to environmental effects, ranging from biodiversity loss to climate change.

    Motherfuckers will find it easier to imagine genociding half of humanity than ending capitalism.

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      20 days ago

      Lol, what do you think indiscriminate use of resources is? That’s literally capitalism!

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        20 days ago

        Unless you’re an ecofascist neonazi, in which case the same phrase gets interpreted as “use of resources by the wrong kind of people”.

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          According to me, the wrong kind of people are the chuds, billionaires, the tech broligarchs and Neo Nazis and maga chuds and other far right extremists

          So yeah, maybe we should kill those people

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          20 days ago

          Jfc, I’m not castrating anyone, just asking nicely - consider not making more. Maybe 8 billion is plenty.

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            19 days ago

            Cool. You can “say that”. But that doesn’t happen. People have kids.

            Come up with one idea or policy that actually results in people having less children? Because that’s what the comment you replied to is saying. They are talking about the inevitable policies that come from the “just have less” ideas.

            The idea is pointless if it just lives in your head. Would be great if everyone that read this comment gave me $1. But no one’s gonna do that unless I actually had a reason for them to. The reasons to place on people to have less children either don’t work or are human rights violations.

            You sound like the dumb “smart guy” that says “we could have world peace if everyone just smoked weed everyday”.

            You don’t solve something by coming up with a solution with no means of reaching it. Hell, it’s not really a solution, it’s just a conclusion. It’s why the “population problem” is so good for propaganda. It redirects the problem and distracts stupid people that haven’t actually thought through how that would work.

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              19 days ago

              The plan here is women’s education and access to contraceptives. These 2 things very consistently cause a significant decline in fertility rates. To the point that leaders across the globe are shitting their pants over it.

              Consider that ~50% of births globally are from unplanned pregnancies. Prevention of those can do a lot of heavy lifting.

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            19 days ago

            Probably need to direct this to the people in India and china who hold 1/4 of the worlds population

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        Absolutely! Famously non capitalist countries have no capability of funding studies. Nope. Hell, we’d never have gotten the first satellite or first person into space without capitalism! Everything good comes from capitalism! And everything bad, yeah, it’s socialism. And if it’s REALLY bad, it’s communism.