That's what #China's end of #population #growth means: reducing #overpopulation is very good news! Instead of seeing a threat in this, we need to see an opportunity to build a society and #economy that doesn't depend on infinite growth of everything. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/24/china-population-decline-negative-growth-what-it-means-for-world
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Humanity is not doing well. We rule the planet. Our ruling has cause a planetary emergency. To end it, we need to face the emergency and come together and act.
@ClimateHuman, yes! But we need to speak in a way that all can hear us, not just our colleagues. The Club of Rome declared a #PlanetaryEmergency in 2019, and I am sure, not even 1% of the global population heard the sound of the alarm bell. We need to change this. That is what we try to do at https://www.place4us.net, where we make an effort to bring many of us together in actions that make sure, #Earth remains a place for us.
@ClimateHuman, great what you are doing. You might be interested in the Declaration of #PlanetaryEmergency that we want to be translated in all languages we have on Earth. We scientists have expressed the emergency, but it seems like we are in a sound-proven room and the world is not hearing us. On https://www.place4us.net we are ringing the alarm bell in a way that can be heard outside our scientific bubble. Join the effort ...
Replacing a wrong "solution" with another wrong solution: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/24/us-electric-vehicles-lithium-consequences-research
We need better transportation with less #cars, car-free #cities, better land use with less #transportation, we need less, not more. Leave #lithium in the ground, protect the #people and the #environment by ending the #mining!
We need better transportation with less #cars, car-free #cities, better land use with less #transportation, we need less, not more. Leave #lithium in the ground, protect the #people and the #environment by ending the #mining!
More #introduction: It can only be a brief, destructive phase in human (and Earth) history, a phase that drives the population of one species to unsustainable numbers, pollutes the planet with novel substances, wipes out one ecosystem after the other, reduces non-human wildlife at unprecedented speed, pushes species rapidly into extinction,and destroys the wealth and health of the planet. We must/should ask, is this all in preparation of the extinction of Homo sapiens sapiens?
More as #introduction Economic growths is the resulting disease which economists try to masquerade as the cure, a cure that ignores common sense, destroys reason, violates basic physical laws, opposes science and negates logic to elude us for the precipice in front of us. This addiction to economic growth, which is driven by increasing consumption, makes us the most damaging invasive species in the history of the planet. It can only be a brief, destructive phase in human (and Earth) history...
As #introduction, my thoughts on our #economy: The modern mainstream economic system is designed for a video game with infinite chances to start over with a new planet when everything collapses. This video game (or monopoly) is being played on a system that should be a supply system that meets our needs while safeguarding the Earth's life-support system, on which the welfare of all life on Earth depends. Economic growths is the resulting disease which economists try to masquerade as the cure...
@ayarocks I agree. That is why we are building Place4us.net and why we have written the Declaration of #PlanetaryEmergency there. We have now started a crowd sourcing effort to translate this declaration into all 7,000 languages we still have. You can help us with this ... Just go to https://www.place4us.net ...