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return2ozma@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 hours ago

Study reveals halving human population gradually could help Earth

www.independent.co.uk

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Study reveals halving human population gradually could help Earth

www.independent.co.uk

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Ever-increasing levels of population and resource consumption are not in the interests of future generations, scientists warn
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  • aproposnix@piefed.social
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    Just waiting for Theil or some other tech bro to start a company called “Vault-Tec”.

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    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.

    • Olap@lemmy.world
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      Lol, what do you think indiscriminate use of resources is? That’s literally capitalism!

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

    • realitista@lemmus.org
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      Genocide is unneeded. Population levels decline naturally as people urbanize. Just keep moving people into cities and industrializing farming and the problem will solve itself.

    • bluefootedbooby@sopuli.xyz
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      Well, noone needs to get genocide, just stop making more

      • acargitz@lemmy.ca
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        Oh you mean eugenics and reproductive control. Yea, also genocidal.

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

        • realitista@lemmus.org
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          deleted by creator

    • Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world
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      Capitalism is what paid for them to do the study in the first place.

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    Actually, we’d only need to lose 50 maybe 100 people. Total.

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      Nah, their fortunes would just go to their heirs and you’d still have the same problem with roughly the same number of people. The solution is a system of regulation and taxation that stops incentivizing the pursuit of profit over all else. For example, shareholders should not be able to profit when workers don’t. Real estate owners should not be able to engage in cartel-like behavior, collaborating with each other to fix prices.

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        The money gets split when it goes to the heirs. Just keep eliminating the rich until the money inherited is diluted enough its not significant.

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    Study reveals that humans are the main cause of human-caused environmental effects.

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    Great, start with yourself then.

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    Thanos enters the room.

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      My god, thanos is right

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    I am not particularly sympathetic, but there is a group that takes this quite seriously:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_Human_Extinction_Movement

    The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT[A]) is an environmental movement that calls for all people to abstain from reproduction in order to cause the gradual voluntary extinction of humankind. VHEMT supports human extinction primarily because it would prevent environmental degradation.

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    Who gets to have kids? I saw that “high income nations” use more resources. But “low income nations” have significantly higher birth rates. So, who gets to have kids and who decides?

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      White centibillionaires with a background in apartheid of course.

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    How about raising VAT and killing all the poor?

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    Get the population downd to around 35,000 and we can all go to the superbowl. 24 of us even get to play!

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    I hope when it’s my turn they do it quickly.

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    Slowly Narrow Approved Population (SNAP)

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