• JackOfAllTraits@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Just to preface - I am not a capitalist. I believe in degrowth and communalism. With that in mind, if we just start dropping our numbers at this rate any system we have will collapse. There is no way for human societies to work if the vast majority of its demographic are the elderly.

    We are not doing “the planet” any favors by launching a civilizational collapse. Planned degrowth is not only better, it is literary the only way forward.

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      1 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%.