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Ignoring the climate emergency
(lemmy.world)
• Global food collapse looms amid heat and water stress, warns new study
• ‘Ironic’: climate-driven sea level rise will overwhelm major oil ports, study shows
• Illinois carbon capture project captures almost no carbon
• Soil degradation threatens food supply and scientists are calling for action
• Europe’s conifer trees severely impacted by climate change; urgent action needed
Note: When reading news coverage from any corporate-owned source — a newspaper, TV station or network, etc — the facts are generally factual, but the slant favors the rich and powerful.
Previously
Preventing, or even slowing, climate change (happening) and ecological collapse (close to the point of no return today) won't happen without massive depopulation. Massive depopulation comes with economic and societal collapse.
I've watched the world population go from 3.76 billion when I was born, to 8.03 today. That should scare the living shit out of us. If we could magically dial it in to 2 kids per 2 adults, we'd have a nice, slow slide back. (If it isn't obvious, some kids will die without reproducing.)
All economic systems depend on growth. Yes, line must go up. The same people that say the economy is all gambling and impossible to predict, too complex, are the same people who think their economic ideas can be planned to maintain a steady state. Weird.
tl;dr: Thomas Malthus was right.
Spot on, and the numbers are astounding.