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this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2024
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Population reduction is already in force because guillotine day isn't coming. The whole peril of climate change is that is renders large developed regions and concentrations of people impossible to sustain. But our inability to curb emissions isn't a consequence of our sheer quantity of people. It is deliberately obstructed by profit-seeking actors in the highest reaches of authority.
You can kill every Gazan, bomb out every Ukrainian or Russian city, and massacre humanity along the length and breadth of the US-Mexico border. It won't curb emissions because these aren't the people burning all the fossil fuels.
I don't mean reduction by cherry picking a population out of existence (except for billionaires - their extinction would be a win for literally all other life), but that humanity in general needs to slow the fuck down.
We won't. We're too stupid to act on any consequences beyond the scope of the fiscal year; but we need to.