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[–] halvar@lemy.lol 4 points 2 months ago

Saying stuff like humans are the virus isn't fascism it's just simply stupid/edgy. Sure you could say someone like that is a useful idiot to fascists but that's like saying everyone who drinks gasoline from the cars parked on the street is furthering the agenda of some solar panel manufacturing company. Both are inconsequential enough for me not to give a shit.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Indigenous people protecting the environment from what?

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[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Are we counting the world's industry into "the world's richest 10%"? Because, last I checked, random dudes in mom-and-pop shops also ordered cheap items from China or India.

[–] peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Ima need yall to not crush a good imeperionstion that I do. I can do a great Hugo Weaving (as mr smith), and the main line that i start off with, or use in my head while saying other things, is the humans are cancer speech.

Also just.. Missssster Anderson

[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There are no evil viruses. Some are just detrimental to us.

[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Good and evil are subjective - the idea behind "humans are a virus" is an implied negativity. Thus the counterexample mapping to a good virus ;)

[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When you buy a house you're "one of the world's richest". The "world's richest" aren't just millionaires and billionaires. They include the middle classes.

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[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca -5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The planetary zero-impact carrying capacity for humanity is somewhere between 500 million and 2 billion, depending if we want (respectively) a first-world meat-inclusive diet or a fully vegan diet.

Carbon emissions aside, we are indeed a plague upon the planet. Thanks to high tech, we have massively blown past our carrying capacity, and risk lowering the non-high-tech-enabled carrying capacity down into the mere tens of millions or even less. Which bodes very badly if we experience a severe civilizational collapse in the next 10-30 years (as is becoming increasingly likely) that makes building and maintaining high tech impossible.

Edit: this meme is also very problematic. A “collapsing environment” has CO2 production as only a very tiny contribution. It also involves soil degradation, overfarming, overfishing, overharvesting of forests, animals driven to extinction, and all sorts of effects that are DIRECTLY ATTRIBUTABLE to our insanely high population and has almost no extra effect from “the wealthy”.

I propose killing bottom 6-7.5 billions of humans. Or better yet, let's create a system that marginalizes bottom 6 billion so they die anyways. And just to speed things up, throw in a couple global wars....

oh wait, we are already on track for this plan

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