Because relentless bad news breeds cynicism, which is demoralizing and self-defeating. In this community there’s already plenty of that to go round. The full story is slightly more complex.

  • blakenong
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    2 days ago

    Having a country with billions of people is more of a problem than economic growth. We should cull the global herd by 90% for the sake of the planet and the survival of the species. Coincidentally, this would also impact economic growth, so I guess it’s a win-win.

    • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 days ago

      To be clear, the problem is a factor of total population and per-capita economic activity. So reducing either will logically mitigate the problem. (The X factor being technology.)

      You seem to be advocating global genocide so your take is rightly unpopular.

      But clearly population is a major part of this problem. The sheer figure for human biomass is totally unsustainable for any kind of healthy global ecosystem. Personally I find it irritating that there are so many who deny these inconvenient facts.

      • blakenong
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        2 days ago

        That’s not actually genocide. I suggest it be random.

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          1 day ago

          Okay Thanos, that’s enough for today. But you may be excited to know that birth rates across the globe are falling to the point that a population decline is in the works.

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            17 hours ago

            Thanos was right, but he was weak. Half? That only buys time.

            It does make me happy the population is going down, but it will go back up again. We have too many people for the resources of our planet, and the way we use those resources. We need to give back large amounts to Mother Earth.

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              13 hours ago

              I dunno man, I bet the current population trajectory plus improvements in efficiency/ conservation with a lot less capitalism will likely be sufficient. 90% just seems like a lot more work than necessary.

              • blakenong
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                9 hours ago

                Prior to the Industrial Revolution the population hovered around 1 billion give or take a few hundred million. Let’s go back there.