boemUN report says world is racing to well past warming limit as carbon emissions rise instead of plunge
Being vegan is the most impactful change that individuals can make.
But we won’t change.
It is totally hopeless.
Systemic problems require systemic solutions. Hoping everyone collectively changes their behaviour isn’t a solution unfortunately.
We have all the tools and technology to make a huge dent in this problem right now if not outright solve it. The most impactful thing you can do is spread awareness and do what you can to make this a voting issue if you live in a democracy. It could even be as simple is making it a non negotiable for how you choose to vote.
Lack of climate action needs to be a death sentence for the careers of the political class or it will become a death sentence for the the rest of us.
regrettably, God made animals taste good.
I’ll do you one better: don’t have kids!
And if that's not enough, then at least there won't be any humans around to suffer through it!
But you're fighting against a fundamental urge of life here ... kinda hard to achieve that at a large scale. At least that's why I tell myself and my kid.
Yea, you’re absolutely right. Humans are just animals in the end. Tho it is important to remember that your impact is absolutely microscopic, and even if 95% of people suddenly had the willingness, income and ability to make such changes to their life…
…there would still be a market for it, and we’d barely make a dent in the problem. Big corporations and billionaires are so much worse
Doug Stanhope: Voice of America - ABORTION IS GREEN
I can recommend explanations on youtube. It’s hosted by a clinical sexologist and covers topics around birth control and more
Yeah… after having a child we needed to double the size of our trashcan just because of diapers.
OurTragicUniverseWhy did you have a kid?
What else were they going to use all those diapers for?
Fetish stuff?
All my friends are doing it.
Lmao, wow. That's bleak. I hope you tell your kid this, they're going to be living through collapse and you forced them into this because of fucking FOMO peer pressure.
Yo here's some fun links from the World Economic Forum and United Nations for you:
Global freshwater demand will exceed supply 40% by 2030 and 90% of global top soil and arable land is at risk of depletion by 2050.
I hope you're proud of yourself.
you’re spreading eugenicist propaganda and you should stop.
I can't stop any of you fucking morons from adding massively to your carbon footprints by selfishly reproducing to keep up with the Jones's.
Trying to make you fucking comsider what a horrible idea it is to force more life onto this fucked up shit hole of a planet isn't eugenics.
Don't use words you don't understand, it just makes you look fucking stupid.
this is more eugenicist propaganda and a string of insults.
It was a joke you ham-sandwich. I and my wife wanted a family. Now we do. And so far it’s going quite well so I will take my chances. :)
Dayum, and the smell of that must be horrid
Not really. We have one of those smell free diaper cans. They close after you put something in them.
Maybe Vote for candidates who won’t FORCE people, and children, to have babies.
My trick is to not live in America
malthusianism is gross.
What makes you think major nations will forego their cheapest source of energy if other nations are using it?
And the easiest. But even if all animal products were eliminated worldwide, it would probably still not be enough for the emissions target. So individual changes do not make a dent in the problem.
Not having children is the most impactful individual change one can make, well over going vegan.
That’s not really a change that an individual can make. Either you already have them or you don’t.
It’s a choice you can make
this is eugenicist propaganda. also, going vegan has no impact at all.
Then what do you suggest? Thanos?
i suggest we figure out a way to maintain the habitability of the planet without eugenics.
Right, but from a “carbon footprint” perspective, making new humans is the worst thing a human could do for their footprint. What we need to get away from is the argument that our individual carbon footprints are too high. I mean, they are, but the ruling class is a lot more egregious.
from a “carbon footprint” perspective, making new humans is the worst thing a human could do for their footprint.
this is actual eugenicist propaganda. you should stop spreading it.
No it is not. It has nothing to do with eugenics. Nothing at all.
as i mentioned in the other subthread, eugenics is often used synonymously with genocide, which is the meaning i was connoting.
Genocide is not being suggested.
Genocide is against the other’s will.
I am not suggesting any kind of violence.
propaganda that encourages one segment of the population to “voluntarily” cease procreation is a method of genocide.
Who said anything at all about “one segment of the population”?
I didn’t. Maybe I’m wrong, but I didn’t see anybody in the present thread talk about “one segment of the population.”
I do NOT think only one segment of the population should cease procreation.
I think everyone everywhere should stop procreation.
But they won’t. How could they, when humans have no freewill to choose?
We will continue making more pointless copies of each other till some outside force stops us from reproduction, like a giant meteor hitting the earth or the sun expanding to engulf the earth or the earth becoming so hot masses of humans die from the heat or some massive highly fatal pandemic destroys humans.
I can’t imagine what is so exciting about our existence in the first place, that causes us to continue on and on.
I didn’t. Maybe I’m wrong, but I didn’t see anybody in the present thread talk about “one segment of the population.”
they’re not talking about it. tehy’re talknig to it. they’re literally propagandizing english-speaking fediverse users to stop procreating.
What is so terrible about not reproducing?
Nothing. Nothing at all.
I didn’t reproduce. And all I feel is relief. I am happy that I had no children. They won’t have to suffer in this hell of a world.
You can still have ethics with no freewill.
You just can’t freely choose your ethics.
no, you can’t, because you can’t choose your actions. it’s a farce.
this is just more eugenicist propaganda.
Thank you for reminding me of the pointlessness of talking to human beings.
i hope you escape your misanthropy.
I am not a eugenicist. Eugenicists think the world or people can be improved. I do not think the world or existence can be improved. I do not think humans can be improved.
If you really are a “commie” (like your username) then you think the world and humans, or the system can be improved. You have more in common with eugenics than I do.
Also, I am not a misanthrope. I do not hate human beings. I just think existence is an inescapable horror, that can never be fixed. That human beings and other animals suffer constantly.
But I am in the minority in my views. I am in an infinitesimally small minority.
You and the rest of humanity go on without me. I have no interest in the future. Or any of the innumerable schemes for utopia paradise: not christian/religious, not communist, not capitalist, not back to nature, not transhumanist, not satanic, not materialist, not idealist.
People will do what they always do. I have no interest. We are all aimed at non-existence and there is nothing that can be done about that.
I go delete all my replies now.
I go delete all my replies now.
why?
Because I can see clearly that non-existence is better than existence.
this sounds like you might be suicidal. I hope that you’re not. if you are I hope you can get some help. I hope you don’t kill yourself.
Every single thing is aimed at non-existence. I’m just ahead of the curve and happy about it.
I can’t kill myself. I promised someone that I wouldn’t leave them all alone in this horror-hell world. Otherwise, all bets are off.
I don’t see it as help to force people to be miserable.
The only good things are non-existent things. All things that exist are evil, everything in the universe. It is impossible to avoid harming humans and non-human animals.
Non-existence is the only happiness and paradise.
This is just embarrassing. It's not even good trolling.
I’m not trolling. I’m trying to vocally oppose eugenics.
humans have no freewill
then ethics are an illisuion and the fact that you think everyone “should” stop procreating is a farce. there is no “should” without the ability to choose.
Which segment of society do you think the phrase "nobody should be having kids" is targeting?
it’s obviously targeting English speaking fedivers users.
Which segment of society do you feel is being targetted when people say "nobody should be having kids"?
it’s clearly targeting English speaking fediverse users.
Sorry what? ...You actually believe that people talking about collapse and antinatalism here is targetting users here with eugenics?
I fucking deleted the question because I thought it was too offensive to actively make you look this stupid by pointing it out, but you actually believe this?
I feel ableist for laughing at you.
people talking about collapse and antinatalism here is targetting users here with eugenics
you managed to type the words in the right order, but you still don’t seem to understand.
who do you think COULD be effected by the english-language comments on the fediverse?