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  • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.todaytoSneerClub@awful.systemswe're not Nazis btw
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    7 months ago

    If you needed me to tell you they were bad people after telling you what they believe, then you’re not really worth the energy to be perfectly frank. They are literally racial supremacists trying to fuck the planet over by supporting population growth in a time of widespread inequality and war. You don’t need me to go through the thesaurus of insults to understand how bad they are. You’re an adult, you should be able to piece this grand puzzle together on your own.



  • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.todaytoSneerClub@awful.systemswe're not Nazis btw
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    7 months ago

    Meh, personally I think pollution impacts on fertility might be overblown. Not in any way negligible, just overrated.

    For example, microplastics are being found everywhere now but widespread plastic use was about 1/6th the current levels over 40 years ago so you would expect it to have been an issue going back decades. Methane emissions also cause birth defects and loss of fertility, but states with refineries and flare stacks also have higher rates of teen mothers (unintuitive correlation of conservative policies).

    On the other hand, the fastest growing populations are places such as the middle east with low to nonexistent women’s rights, while the slowest growing are places with women in positions of power and education. In 1994 in Cairo the United Nations came up with a plan to curb poverty and starvation in the region by limiting population growth by… checks notes* educating women.

    That all said: Population Decline is a good thing. It should decline. 200 years ago we had a billion people, and we had flourishing arts and sciences and engineering marvels such as the London Underground, typewriters, trains and canals across continents, the first Soda Fountain. Less people doesn’t hinder humanity in any feasible way. More people is going to kill this planet.

    Sorry for the rant.