• omgboom@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    I’m sorry to tell you, but the tipping point is passed. We are on a course that can’t really be changed at this point. I pray for our children, and their children.

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      22 hours ago

      Sure, we’re on course for disaster. But pretending like there is a single tipping point and that we’re Doomed (doomed, I say!) anyway, is just a convenient excuse to wallow in hopelessness and inaction. The truth is that we’re still making things worse by the day, and every kilo of CO2 saved helps slow down the speed of the disaster. And those little efforts by folks like us, might still make the difference between 1 billion dead or 1.1 billion dead.

      • ᓚᘏᗢ@piefed.social
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        21 hours ago

        And those little efforts by folks like us, might still make the difference between 1 billion dead or 1.1 billion dead.

        Lmao, bro what sort of bullshit hopium are you puffing on to think the death toll will be 1.1 billion at worst?!

        Fresh water resources are depleting rapidly and arable land is being lost at breakneck speed. If the blue ocean event doesn’t get us all first, the drought and famine will. Humanity will not make it out of the century.

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          21 hours ago

          It’s just a random number. No matter how bad it gets, your attitude can only make it even worse.

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            20 hours ago

            The capitalist overlords love your compliance and willingness to spread optimistic propaganda to the proletariat. Keep it up buddy, a good worker is a hopeful worker!

            But sure whatever, go recycle something and buy an electric car if it makes you feel better. You don’t have much time left anyway, so you might as well be a happy moron.

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      12 hours ago

      I pray people stop having children.

      Edit: to the hexbear user who accused me of ecofascism and asked “which people should stop having children?” my answer to you is:

      Nobody should be having kids because the world is fucking ending.

      Reproduction is stupid, selfish and immoral when we literally have a time line of between 6 and 25 years for running out of fresh water and arable land, and we’re looking at 4+°c warming this century.

      Hexbear is unfederated with piefed and I’m not going to torture my eyes trying to read this thread on its original instance again just to see if you respond, I’m pretty sure you’re just going to accuse me of silly shit that doesn’t make sense anyway. The last time I spoke to a hexbearer about antinatalism, they called me a eugenicist for talking about not having kids. Lmao.

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          22 hours ago

          This statement just gave me an odd thought. Why not “everyone”. Who says the human race has to endure or continue? I guess that would be considered nihilism?

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          23 hours ago

          The average carbon footprint for a person in the United States is 16 tons, one of the highest rates in the world.

          Each new life adds more carbon and pollution to this world and will die suffering ftom resource scarcity.

          How selfish can you be to bring yet more people into this hell world, just because you want to have a baby?