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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The average environmental impact of even poor people in rich nations is many times higher than even rich people in poor nations.

a) Having fewer kids is extremely environmentally friendly, in any nation, and especially the West. Each child produces around 60x the CO2 offset by one person going vegan for life. This is just CO2. Consider the countless other ways an individual pollutes the environment during the course of their lives.

b) Migration from poor nations to rich nations is extremely damaging to the environment. Consumption matches Western patterns almost immediately.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

The average environmental impact of even poor people in rich nations is many times higher than even rich people in poor nations.

It's often around 1t CO~2~e for a poor person in developing country vs. 5-10t CO~2~e for a poor person in an industrialized country.

However, rich people in Western countries tend to be in the 100s or 1000s of tons of CO~2~e/p/y which is extremely far off from being sustainable.

But I want to emphasize that this is just the current state. How your child lives in 20 or 30 years, you don't know. It may use much fewer resources or much more. I am cautiously optimistic that they will use fewer resources than we do. The question is more whether it will be enough.

a) Having fewer kids is extremely environmentally friendly, in any nation, and especially the West

1t CO~2~e/person/year is roughly sustainable within the current ecosystem. Thus, many people in poor countries are at or near climate neutrality already. If people live sustainably already, then no, there is no inherent need to reduce population or necessarily have fewer children.

That's not to say there may not be other benefits to having fewer children.

Each child produces around 60x the CO2 offset by one person going vegan for life.

Again, this is true only in the current situation and in Western countries.

b) Migration from poor nations to rich nations is extremely damaging to the environment. Consumption matches Western patterns almost immediately.

Blaming CO~2~e emissions on migrants is a bit disingenuous. But if it helps you make the case to yourself that Western countries should do more to give people in developing nations safer lives so they don't have to flee, I guess I'll take it.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Having fewer kids is extremely environmentally friendly

this is some malthusian eugenicist bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Malthusian yes, eugenicist no.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

you can't do any malthusian advocacy that isn't necessarily eugenicist

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you can't implement any malthusian policy that isn't necessarily eugenicist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

People may make it eugenicist but the policy can not be. For exemple if the country gives money for the first child but not the second, you reduce the intentions to have more than one. Then maybe people will kill their baby because they want a blond girl but this is their fault.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm giving money to my country by paying taxes?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In social countries, parents receive money for parental leaves and to pay for childcare for example.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

eugenics, selecting against socialized countries.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Humans cause pollution so fewer humans = less pollution. It's not that complicated.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fuck ecofascism. The problem is not how many we are. We are well within the planet's carrying capacity. The problem is how the richest among us live.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Almost every modern human uses non-renewable resources and produces greenhouse gases either directly or indirectly. At the current rates it is unsustainable. It is the exponential growth of industry, technology, and human population that has caused the dramatic shift in climate change.

The top 10% earning Americans (>$178,000/year) created 40% of the nation's pollution according to a recent study. And that factored in the industries they worked in. That still means that the majority of climate change is caused by the activity of normal people.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

doubling down on this is fucking gross

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Advocating for overpopulation is fucking gross. The planet is already experiencing another mass extinction event.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

no one is advocating for overpopulation. I'm advocating for the silencing of malthusian and xenophobes by any means necessary.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We can acknowledge reality without being histrionic. I’m not calling for an end to humanity. I’m simply explaining that human life is wasteful and inefficient. I think we should accept that, rather than pretending otherwise. Tinkering around the edges isn’t going to change the trend.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

this is just ecofascism

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

misogyny is another classic hallmark of fascism.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Migration from poor nations to rich nations is extremely damaging to the environment.

sounds like xenophobia.

honestly, your whole post reads like eviro-fascism.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Reality isn’t “fascism.” If you can’t end bear to hear facts without screeching about fascism, consider that you might need to work in your mental resiliency. I didn’t argue to end migration from poor to rich nations. I’m simply explaining it’s catastrophic for the environment. Pick your poison. What do you care about more? The environment, or your belief in open borders?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I didn’t argue to end migration from poor to rich nations. I’m simply explaining it’s catastrophic for the environment. Pick your poison. What do you care about more? The environment, or your belief in open borders?

this is ecofascism. I can't believe your instance or this community tolerates it.