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So your ideal future is that of as many as possible miserable people? In other words, you'd rather live in Bangladesh than the US you're apparently in? Why hav

• ethbr1 3y ago
  There's a difference between misery and limiting ones intake of climate-unsustainable calories. Not eating meat a few days of the week seems a small price to pay for allowing more people to live. And walk me through how we limit population to allow resource excess, without artificial population controls and managing the economic impacts of a shrinking population, and I'll consider it.
  • jojobas 3y ago
    All Western countries went into below-replacement fertility without any population control. Life on soylent in a dorm is not worth living.
    • ethbr1 3y ago
      The majority of Western countries are consuming at a level, were it applied globally, would exhaust the planet. Distracting people from fucking isn't a feasible sustainability target when applied to the whole world.
      • jojobas 3y ago
        > The majority of Western countries are consuming at a level, were it applied globally, would exhaust the planet. This is an argument against overpopulation, not for lowering living standards.