Cool. The sooner human population starts to go down the better it will be the the rest of the planet.
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
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)
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Does the earth care about human economic problems?
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So… a planned dropping of bombs?
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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.
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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%.
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I truly didn’t know SK was worse than Japan
IIRC: The rate in Japan has been below replacement level (2.1) for longer but the rate in SK has been falling faster and has now passed Japan.
Edit:
Just did some quick research:First year below 2.1
Japan: 1975
Sth Korea: 1984
Year Sth Korea dropped below Japan’s rate and kept falling: 2001.
Will be interesting to see how the countries with a decline manage (japan, Russia, Korea come to mind)
North or South Korea
Edit: article says south korea
I’ve noticed a major uptick in people referring to South Korea as just Korea.
I think the powers that be are just trying to wipe the idea of a North Korea out of people’s minds. It’s just Korea, and South Korea is the owner of it all. (in their minds and how they want us to believe)
Eh, it’s more likely that the statistics that come out of North Korea are so few and so unreliable that there’s no reason to specify that they’re talking about South Korea, it’s just assumed by most that they aren’t talking about the Hermit Kingdom.
And fwiw the South Koreans refer to their own country as 대한민국 daehanmiguk - the Great Korean People’s Country and the North call themselves 조선 Joseon (or more specifically the Democratic People’s Republic of Joseon), the name of the last Korean dynasty. Neither refer to each other as “North” or “South” and they discourage the use of divided names because it implies the goal of both isn’t unification.
