How about we start with 1% and see what happens.
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Just the top 10000 would make a big difference already
Then the systems that prop up that 1% continue on as if nothing happened, only people might be paid more evenly.
That's it. Expecting a fundamental shift in how humanity/global society functions just because a comparitive handful of people die is just ridiculous.
But we won't know for sure unless we try.
And of course if they are gone, they won't be there to kick and scream like children against every step of progress.
There was this book about a fertility reducing virus.
Dan Brown Inferno
Right, that one. Punchline was good.
Ecofascism.
But the billionaires say we need MORE people so they have enough slaves of the colors they like!
It's like dogs or ball pythons. They're breeding selectively for the most desirable (to them) traits
Gotta have their favorite colorway
alternatively we could probably do with just reducing population by every CEO/comapany owner/shareholder/leader/whoever has control that refuses to become climate neutral
I like this idea, fuck tax incentives and carbon credits.
You get to neutral, you shut down your business, or you die. Your choice!
Actually scientists in the 1970s were saying we need to do what we can to stabilize AT the 4 billion we were at then. See Limits to Growth and related studies. Cutting back now would help, but far more damage has been caused thanks to everything we've done including but not limited to population pressures than if we had heeded the warnings then and changed our direction. Some feedbacks are probably unstoppable now, no matter what we cut back.
That was primarily about the ability to provide food. The same scientists back then would have said we can't even reach this population level while eating meat.
They were correct until we advanced agricultural science and found ways to more than double our food production.
Almost like its not a population problem, its a logistics problem.
Always has been.
Hey... How dare you bring logic into my eco-fashy views of "fixing" global suffering...
/s
(Also not making fun of the comment you responded to, but those that I have seen so much on reddit.)
Thanos could have doubled the amount of space and resouces in the universe just as easily.
Just to get swallowed up by the same 1%?
It doesn't matter one way or the other. Let's say there's a 1% growth rate of the population. That means you're back to the original population in 70 years. Or doubled the resource use.
Since he has infinite power, he could have just made it so capacity constantly increases with population.
As you said, either way, it is a flawed premise.
Halve Life 4b confirmed.
Are these scientists with us on the room right now?
@laurenceOfSuburbia@lemmy.world [citation required]
bro its a meme for light chuckles. nobody said that seriously.
@laurenceOfSuburbia@lemmy.world let's make memes of halving (decimating?) billionare population instead, then :)