I’m not taking eugenics or genocide or any kind of policy, I’m just suggesting we allow declining birthrates to persist. Stop bowing to capitalistic urges, stop “keeping up with the Joneses”.
Reducing the number of humans is the best way to reduce climate impact.
This is Malthusian nonsense. The United States, for example, is 4% of the World’s population but still uses 25% of the world’s resources annually. The United States outsources their pollution and their production to the third world, where the labor is cheapest due to imperialism, and then says “the third world is responsible for the climate change because of their carbon emissions! We need to cut down on the number of people!”
You’ve got suburbanites with 5x the carbon footprint of the average citizen of the third world, you’ve got billionaires who own thousands of hectares of land, you’ve got celebrities burning thousands of gallons of jet fuel on 1 minute flights, there are way more ways to cut down on carbon emissions than Epic Meme Thanos Policy. You could start with solar, wind, nuclear, ending fossil fuel consumption, ending wars (which btw, war both reduces the population AND destroys the environment, showing the two aren’t as inversely proportional as you think), walkable cities, apartment blocks and public transit, but the reactionary fear of working class people of different backgrounds congregating with each other and realizing they actually have a lot in common, makes the ruling class scared.
Compromise? There are just less of us.
I’m not taking eugenics or genocide or any kind of policy, I’m just suggesting we allow declining birthrates to persist. Stop bowing to capitalistic urges, stop “keeping up with the Joneses”.
Reducing the number of humans is the best way to reduce climate impact.
This is Malthusian nonsense. The United States, for example, is 4% of the World’s population but still uses 25% of the world’s resources annually. The United States outsources their pollution and their production to the third world, where the labor is cheapest due to imperialism, and then says “the third world is responsible for the climate change because of their carbon emissions! We need to cut down on the number of people!”
You’ve got suburbanites with 5x the carbon footprint of the average citizen of the third world, you’ve got billionaires who own thousands of hectares of land, you’ve got celebrities burning thousands of gallons of jet fuel on 1 minute flights, there are way more ways to cut down on carbon emissions than Epic Meme Thanos Policy. You could start with solar, wind, nuclear, ending fossil fuel consumption, ending wars (which btw, war both reduces the population AND destroys the environment, showing the two aren’t as inversely proportional as you think), walkable cities, apartment blocks and public transit, but the reactionary fear of working class people of different backgrounds congregating with each other and realizing they actually have a lot in common, makes the ruling class scared.