AuDHD ♾️ Queer 💜 FOSS enthusiast 👩‍💻 anarcho-trotskiest 🏴🛠️ (actually just an antisectarian ecosocialist who is naive enough to believe in socialist unity)

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Cake day: December 13th, 2024
  • ZoDoneRightNow@kbin.earthtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Should people get preferential treatment because they have kids?
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    11 days ago

    I don’t have a lot of energy so please excuse the dot points

    • Overpopulation is a myth that goes back centuries and has been used to fuel racism and genocide.
    • We currently produce enough food and water and have enough shelter to sustain the whole human population.
    • 1% of the worlds population is responsible for 15% of the worlds carbon emissions and nearly 25% of growth in emissions since 1990. The number of people is not the cause of the climate catastrophe, it is the people on top.
    • The majority of all crops grown is used to feed livestock instead of people. We don’t need this much meat to survive.
    • It is capitalism and the 1% that is the cause of all of this and not the majority of people. It is not the number of people that is the issue but the system and the people on top. Daniskarmas points about how much resources we require and how much we pollute are just false when you look at the cause of those issues and how much disparity there is between the majority of people and the top 1%. We currently produce enough food to feed 10 billion people and could easily produce enough to sustain the same amount with far less emissions, water, and land use if we didn’t produce so much meat. To summarise, it is not overpopulation that causes climate change, death by starvation and thirst or pollution but the capitalist system that prioritises profits over the planet and life