- cross-posted to:
- environment@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- environment@beehaw.org
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2024 let’s go
Great job everyone, really nailed it last year!!!
Meanwhile, the based Houthi rebel backlash caused by Israel’s blatant war crimes has created a situation where 95% of all container ships headed for Europe have had to be redirected around the tip of Africa as of yesterday morning.
I’ll let you guess who the world will blame.
There are too many people on this goddamn planet. Each person that we add takes more resources. The population is nearly double what it was when my parents were born. That has a dramatic impact on the planet’s resources.
There is a distinct racist history to how overpopulation is discussed. High-birth-rate countries tend to be low-emissions-per-capita countries, so overpopulation complaints are often effectively saying “nonwhites can’t have kids so that whites can keep burning fossil fuels” or “countries which caused the climate problem shouldn’t take in climate refugees.”
On top of this, as basic education reaches a larger chunk of the world, birth rates are dropping. We expect to achieve population stabilization this century as a result.
At the end of the day, it’s the greenhouse gas concentrations that actually raise the temperature. That means that we need to take steps to stop burning fossil fuels and end deforestation.
Yup. Also known as ecofascism.
My FIL said maybe nature will find some solution on its own. I told him that all the forest fires, floods, blizzards, heat waves and wars are the solution nature has for exterminating the pests causing this issue.
Life will be just fine, humans don’t have the power to extinguish life. But we sure do have the power to exterminate ourselves 🤦♂️
Over 40% of insect species are near extinction due to human activity.
woo…
Yeah but our economy?
I cared. I no longer do, I’m going to enjoy life for as long as we’re able to live, may we soon all die from hunger, I guess.
I mean, what’s the alternative? I really can’t do anything about it and actual solutions will require changing how humanity lives, forever, and it will literally take us centuries to fix this, even if tomorrow magically we change everything. Doesn’t matter, nobody alive today will see the world environment how it was 2 centuries ago before the industrial revolution.
And again, that is best and magical case. Reality? Those in charge don’t care, won’t do anything, will actively actually make it even worse if it gets them money and humanity doesn’t want to change car centric cites and is all whooed by electric cars that won’t solve the actual problem.
So do enjoy everyone, while we still can.
