• Pons_Aelius
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    201 year ago

    Cool. The sooner human population starts to go down the better it will be the the rest of the planet.

    • @[email protected]
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      91 year ago

      Well yes. But it is the same as like quitting smoking and drinking as a heavy abuser from one to the other day. Your next few weeks will be not so cool. On this case it will be not so cool decades

      • Mkengine
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        21 year ago

        Looking here the fertility rate is declining since the 1960s, so I wouldn’t say 60 years is like quitting from one day to another, they had more than enough time to tackle the problem.

        • @[email protected]
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          71 year ago

          Oh yes yes. Of course the time would be enough to apply policies to tackle the problems created by this. However my experience of humanity so far is that those time will not be properly used to tackle the problems 🙃 therefore it will still feel like a cold turkey (IMHO)

      • @GlitzyArmrest
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        61 year ago

        Does the earth care about human economic problems?

      • Pons_Aelius
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        1 year ago

        Sorry but we humans have been fucking over the planet and our impact needs to be reduced ASAP.

        We have blithely caused catastrophic damage to the ecosystem and have continued to do so for decades after we had the knowledge and capacity to reverse the effects.

        The argument the whole time against changing our ways has been but it will hurt the economy

        Well, we are now reaping what we sowed, so Fuck the economy and let the find out phase begin as soon as possible.

          • Pons_Aelius
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            -11 year ago

            I am not a capitalist. I beleive in degrowth and communalism

            Honestly?

            Your politics are irreverent, you are still Humans first and only.

            The earth is in the middle of the sixth and fastest mass extension in the planets 3,500,000,000 years that life has existed.

            It is only the second caused by a single species. The other was the great oxygenation event caused by Cyanobacteria.

            The big difference is that we know the destruction we are causing and are doing nothing

            Personally, the best thing that could have happened to planet earth would have been for COVID to have had a mortality rate of 30-95%.