• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    I agree that the answer to humanity’s most pressing issues is lowering our population, but don’t think it’s a non-issue.

    The old keep aging out of the workforce, there’s not enough young to keep a viable tax base, utter collapse. Here’s where someone says tax the snot out of the rich. I’m down with that! But in a shrinking population, they won’t be rich long. Directly or indirectly, all of their money comes from us.

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      10 days ago

      Right, so we’re all going to have to adopt some form of austerity, however, most of us are already down there. So I mean the sooner we scrap those yachts to build schools and homes the better

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        10 days ago

        You say austerity, I say mass starvation. Depopulation is going to be an order of magnitude worse than, “Do with a little less.” And global warming may well accelerate all of that.

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          9 days ago

          Hell ya brother I’m a farmer, you’re preaching to the choir. All my crops died of drought and blight this year.