Meanwhile, we can handle our population load and a lot more, we have more than enough land and space and production capacity.
No we don’t. Most of earth’s wildlife has been converted to human biomass or our food in the 6th great mass extinction. There are virtually no wild places left. Your body is full of microplastics, PFAS and and an ungodly cocktail of other bullshit. This shit is in the rain, from pole to pole. The whole thing has an insatiable apetite for finite resources and is powered by non-renewables. We have pushed past 7 of 9 planetary boundaries. This is the scientific way of saying we’re fucked unless we can figure out how to live within our means fast. Scientists are saying we are deep in crisis and you casually blather than we can hold everyone and more. We can’t. We can’t hold what we have now. Sure we could rebalance wealth to end excesses of the rich and poverty, but unless you get consumption and waste way, way down, its still cataclysmic destruction of the biosphere.
Deserted cities are indeed a long term consequence of degrowth. Land will be reserved for wildlife to flourish unmolested again and instead of continually mining virgin lands for resources we can mine our former abandoned cities while we work out the details of a recyclable, circular economy.
I think you have overindulged in apocalypse porn, there are ways forward without mass deaths and I am tired of being read passages from other doomer posts about the climate that I know by heart already. I am pretty much done here, I repeat that I encourage you to read other angles of the problem and our situation and stop praying for calamity to make life better, it’s nihilistic and kind of dumb.
What are they? You get really vague here, presumably on purpose.
I propose mass not-births as part of the answer of degrowth. Anyone that proposes anything unsustainable is the one calling for mass deaths.
doomer posts about the climate that I know by heart already.
Here is a fact. For roughly ever degree of of Global Average Temperature above our pre-industrial average we lose about 10% of global food production. How are we feeding everyone again? 2024 hit 1.5°C and we’re on track for 2.5 to 3.5C at least. What are we all eating?
I repeat that I encourage you to read other angles of the problem and our situation and stop praying for calamity to make life better, it’s nihilistic and kind of dumb.
I’m sorry unpleasant truths couldn’t be delivered with a happier, more cheerful messaging. For what it’s worth, skulls are always smiling.
Again, your type is always disapointing. You can only mischaracterise what we say because you can’t discuss rationally. “Praying for calamity” tells me you have not listened or understood anything being discussed.
No we don’t. Most of earth’s wildlife has been converted to human biomass or our food in the 6th great mass extinction. There are virtually no wild places left. Your body is full of microplastics, PFAS and and an ungodly cocktail of other bullshit. This shit is in the rain, from pole to pole. The whole thing has an insatiable apetite for finite resources and is powered by non-renewables. We have pushed past 7 of 9 planetary boundaries. This is the scientific way of saying we’re fucked unless we can figure out how to live within our means fast. Scientists are saying we are deep in crisis and you casually blather than we can hold everyone and more. We can’t. We can’t hold what we have now. Sure we could rebalance wealth to end excesses of the rich and poverty, but unless you get consumption and waste way, way down, its still cataclysmic destruction of the biosphere.
Deserted cities are indeed a long term consequence of degrowth. Land will be reserved for wildlife to flourish unmolested again and instead of continually mining virgin lands for resources we can mine our former abandoned cities while we work out the details of a recyclable, circular economy.
I think you have overindulged in apocalypse porn, there are ways forward without mass deaths and I am tired of being read passages from other doomer posts about the climate that I know by heart already. I am pretty much done here, I repeat that I encourage you to read other angles of the problem and our situation and stop praying for calamity to make life better, it’s nihilistic and kind of dumb.
What are they? You get really vague here, presumably on purpose.
I propose mass not-births as part of the answer of degrowth. Anyone that proposes anything unsustainable is the one calling for mass deaths.
Here is a fact. For roughly ever degree of of Global Average Temperature above our pre-industrial average we lose about 10% of global food production. How are we feeding everyone again? 2024 hit 1.5°C and we’re on track for 2.5 to 3.5C at least. What are we all eating?
I’m sorry unpleasant truths couldn’t be delivered with a happier, more cheerful messaging. For what it’s worth, skulls are always smiling.
Again, your type is always disapointing. You can only mischaracterise what we say because you can’t discuss rationally. “Praying for calamity” tells me you have not listened or understood anything being discussed.
We are done here.