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Referring to the potential starvation deaths of a large group of people as a positive for climate change is like saying you’re glad someone died early from a car accident instead of suicide.
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Honestly? Yeah, I thought you were serious, because I’ve seen that attitude expressed before. Generally it’s more “this hazy, unspecified population can be sacrificed to help me deal with the existential dread that me and my world are walking off a cliff” than “dear me I so DO delight in death”, but it makes my teeth ache.
Thank you for clarifying, and I’m sorry for jumping on you.
I didn't think he was serious, fwiw.
Nuclear Winter about to solve climate change /s & If there is nothing left to safe there is no need for any efforts /s
I think there might be better alternatives including less suffering
Eh, the way it was written I wouldn’t have read it as sarcasm. Text and tone yada yada. That said, I’ve definitely seen people who seriously think like this.
It's called Malthusianism (after the philosopher Malthus) and, yes, it is a real philosophy.
Sort of. Malthusians believe that disasters which take out large numbers of people help to keep the population in check and are therefore necessary. Obviously a little oversimplified, but that's about what it boils down to.
It's not an illogical stance; it's just one that requires you to become less empathetic.
Completely honest, I lean a little bit more towards nuclear annihilation every day
From the rest of your comment history? Yes, it's entirely believable. It's more surprising that you're walking it back, really.
Literally no way to discern whether it was a sarcastic joke or if you were legitimately an eco-fascist
I see a lot of people on the internet say some pretty horrible shit with a lot of conviction. Sorry that you’re having a rough time. Hopefully adding more clarity to your communication helps a bit.
Those who can not afford to eat are probably not making much CO2 emissions.
Yeah, once they cannot afford the food they stop making any CO2.
Not sure if you caught the text of what they’re saying: people who can’t afford to eat rice starving to death aren’t removing much of humanity’s carbon footprint.
Where you suggest twice that nuclear war would be good or that your whole life is a joke?
I feel fucked up ways about stuff too. Nothing wrong with it and all that negativity’s gotta go somewhere. Just wanted to head the ecofascism train off at the pass.
It doesn’t make sense even on a technical level. Cities are all near water and their fallout plumes would irradiate huge swaths of the earth to the east in addition to everything downstream.
The infrastructure of civilization is all clustered around cities as well, so we’d lose access to the best spots to live.
I got nothing but sympathy for you, thirty years ago that bit would have killed. Today everyone assumes you’re serious.
Good troll. You got me.
It's culling the wrong demographic. Removing poor people is the least efficient. Removing the poorest will have the least effect possible.
These comments always make me wonder wether it's a lack of education, bad taste or racism.
Yes, I read it before. No, it didn't change much. Where's the joke, what's funny about this?
On the other hand, too many people write these comments seriously, which is enough reason to counter them.
It's downplaying the climate crisis and normalizing racism. You can insist it was done in a lighthearted way, but that's not so relevant.
No one needs poor.
Except the people who prefer to pay less for their goods and services. They depend on people willing / forced to work for very little; they need the poor.
Also this is not a business where you could hire and fire people based on what is 'needed', and you're not the boss.
These are humans with exactly the same right to food as you.
They are nothing but numbers in a spreadsheet.