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The Earth can heal if we stop stabbing it.
But it's fun giving the earth a frontal lobotomy, only so we can watch 30-second "AI" generated slop, causing our brains to become numb!
If you could just snap your fingers and half the world's population would disappear would you?
Straight half? No. A select 3% a year for five years? Maybe. If you’ve seen any of the realistic critiques of the Thanos snap you know that doesn’t go well. Trimming down the fascists, oligarchs, nationalist, theocrats, tech barons, and similar greed and hate mongers should be enough without crashing everything.
Well resource consumption wouldn't go down THAT much. Outside of private jets and the like, most shit is still consumed by people.
Making it all illegal works, killing the people who make it possible for us does not because new ones will spring up.
Disrupt their established power networks and put the fear of gods in the survivors would go a long way.
Yeah, Same here honestly. I wish
If I could snap my fingers and all the world's billionaires disappear I would, or oil refineries. Not people though. Humans aren't the virus.
Snap for all the cars to disappear!
No. People would starve to death. Cars are necessary. Not everyone lives in the CBD of the capital city.
Cars are not inherently necessary. But we built around them and made them necessary. That can change. We control how we build and what assumptions we make.
Come down here and say that. When you live 500km from the nearest corner store, a car is necessary.
Like it or not, not everywhere can be the perfect picture of a modern European city. Australia is too big and too sparsely populated for public transport to get to everyone, its not financially viable. Heck, many major arterial highways weren't even paved roads until the last 20 years or so.
Cities should not need automobiles, I agree. But the food will not get to the cities without them. And the people who live in the middle of the country and make the food won't survive without driving to town a couple of times a month either.
You do know people lived in Australia for tens of thousands of years before the invention of cars.
Yep, cars are not necessary (esp what the vast majority does: one person in a car build for four or more). Public and freight transport would totally work.
We could just behave, we dont need to kill half of everyone.
I would probably get botox for my chin first and then think about it.
Id just have the wealthiest die 5 billion times
If I could snap my fingers and have people wake up from the capitalist propaganda they've been force-fed their whole lives, I would. Population is not the issue, it's a deflection.
Without a second thought
Holy fuck why does Lemmy have so many ecofascists
Where in the fuck do you get ecofascism from!? Do you even know what the word means.
"Ecofascism is a political ideology that blends environmental protection with extreme racism, white supremacy, and violence against marginalized groups. "
It's not like they are welcome in many other places
Resorting to calling people ecofascists feels pretty reductive. As the world currently exists, and under current economic systems, population growth is a pretty huge issue, especially while basically zero effort is being put into reducing carbon emissions globally.
There was an article somewhere in these threatlds that gave a decent summary:
What a lot of people (myself included) struggle with is that the amount and significance of change needed to make an actual difference is huge right now, and it requires a concerted global effort to get anywhere close to halting what feels like an inexorable rise in earth's temperatures.
Until we can change this then humans might as well be described as a virus and looking at forced population control (in this case of transport etc. under covid) and seeing a measurable improvement in our environment feels cathartic and, honestly, easier to obtain than the global overturning of capital.
Goes on to describe their definitionally ecofascist beliefs in detail
Overpopulation is a myth started by nazis and eugenicists. People aren't viruses.
Define ecofascism then, because its easy to just fuck around and shit on an opinion without providing an alternative.
I'm not saying we need eugenics or a cull., and I'm certainly not blaming the global south for existing in a world that was driven by short sighted rich European capitalists.
What I am saying is:
What's eco-fascist about that, and if you don't agree, please let me know.
Yeah, overpopulation is really easy to handle and doesn't require violence. Give kids a genuine education that they can continue into adulthood, and access to birth control and reproductive healthcare, and bam, population growth is fixed.
The population problem is intentionally caused by the epstein class, so they can have abundant, desperate, cheap labor.