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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Humans cause pollution so fewer humans = less pollution. It's not that complicated.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fuck ecofascism. The problem is not how many we are. We are well within the planet's carrying capacity. The problem is how the richest among us live.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Almost every modern human uses non-renewable resources and produces greenhouse gases either directly or indirectly. At the current rates it is unsustainable. It is the exponential growth of industry, technology, and human population that has caused the dramatic shift in climate change.

The top 10% earning Americans (>$178,000/year) created 40% of the nation's pollution according to a recent study. And that factored in the industries they worked in. That still means that the majority of climate change is caused by the activity of normal people.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

doubling down on this is fucking gross

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Advocating for overpopulation is fucking gross. The planet is already experiencing another mass extinction event.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

no one is advocating for overpopulation. I'm advocating for the silencing of malthusian and xenophobes by any means necessary.