Black and white cartoon.  Left panel: a group blocks a road with a banner reading "No new oil | so there's a liveable planet for our children."  Right panel: A boardroom, with members of the board raising their hands.  In front of them is a chart showing planned oil extraction going well above a dashed line marked "Level beyond which there will be no livable plant for our children.

  • Chigüir
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    31 year ago

    I read about this concept in a book about Ecofascism. The problem with that Malthusian way of thinking is this: Who will we leave behind? How are we gonna implement eugenics? Capitalists are a clear minority, and most of the global south seems to be an excellent target for answering that question.

    A better way to look at the problem is to de-escalate and simplify. I mean, if you care about your fellow human beings.

    Most of our work is already bullshit, and our industrial capacity (for the most part) can give us nice stuff. At the same time, we get rid of the high-polluting options. The world’s population would self-regulate in horizontal societies just because everything has been that way historically. The phenomenon of hyper-poblation is a centralized-power thing.

    • @Skyrmir
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      11 year ago

      It’s not ecofascism, it’s biochemistry. Humanity has exceeded the caloric capacity of the planet and our technology to produce. We’re a cannon ball at the height of it’s trajectory. What happens now will be up to physics more than any choices made by the cannon ball.