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> Believing we're in a climate crisis and also being anti-nuclear are mutually exclusive positions in my mind Not at all. Some people are depopulationists.
by margalabargala 6mo ago
> Believing we're in a climate crisis and also being anti-nuclear are mutually exclusive positions in my mind
Not at all. Some people are depopulationists.
- igorramazanov 6mo agoI've heard an opinion that having less people leads to a technological regression, because some things to create/research are so expensive that they become profitable and functioning only at the world's scale E.g. China is too small to have an isolated closed market for a competitive and efficient semiconductors manufactoring
- PearlRiver 6mo agoNo it is just that capitalism is a cancer. Nobody has actually cracked the code on how capitalism can work without perpetual growth. Leaders are looking at Japan and they are panicking. Fascists are demanding more white babies.
- throw-the-towel 6mo agoFYI, socialism also cannot work without infinite growth.
- amanaplanacanal 6mo agoLarge scale socialism maybe. It seems to work fine in small hunter gatherer bands.
- margalabargala 6mo agoSocialism works fine without infinite growth. The problem isn't that it requires infinite growth, the problem is that as the scale increases the drag effect of those who consume more resources than they contribute grows faster than resource availability grows. There's a maximum size limit that's based on things like cultural sense of responsibility.
- snovv_crash 6mo agoAnd yet somehow those people are never advocating for leading by example.