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[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

The 1992 Earth Summit in Rio (where the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was created) was a landmark year for the news reporting that climate change is by far the most important issue humans are facing. Widely seen news has been reporting scientists' warnings about the existential threat of our overpopulation and fossil fuel since then, and in the last 30 years the media has been reporting on it more and more every year.

falls onto a handful (or so) of very large corporations

Those companies are not burning the planet for the hell of it - they do it because billions of people choose to buy their biosphere destroying products and services.

While we should vote for Greens who'll make laws where anyone using more than 2.1 tonnes of CO2e per person per year is jailed, instead of for people and parties who subsidize overpopulation and fossil fuel use - in the short term that usually doesn't do anything unless a threshold is passed. Individual action (reducing our communities' fertility rate by 2 orders of magnitude for several decades, not flying, not driving, not living in unsustainable places, ...) while vanishingly small, does actually make a measurable difference.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The former media 'shock jock' commentator has made a series of attacks on the pope, calling him an "imbecile who defends social justice", a "son of a bitch preaching communism" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentine-priests-defend-pope-francis-over-shameful-milei-attacks-2023-09-05/

According to Luke 16:13 Jesus is supposed to have said "You cannot serve both God and money."

Luke 6:29-30 "If someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt from them. Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back."

Mark 10:21 "Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's like 99% of the Christians I've met have never read the Bible, or think no-one else has ever read it:

In Luke 6:29-30 "If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also. If someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt from them. Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back."

Luke 6:35 "love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back."

Luke 16:13 "No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money."

Mark 10:21 "Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Becoming a biological parent means you're causing on average 58.6 tonnes of CO2e released per year for having that kid (it's an order of magnitude worse in rich countries). Wynes et al. 2017

By becoming a biological parent, you're contributing to the biggest and root cause of making the world unlivable due to anthropogenic climate change.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Many South Koreans, especially older ones, have a negative perception of Japanese voters. One of the main reasons for South Korean and Chinese dislike of Japanese voters, is Japan's government's refusal to properly apologize for war crimes, especially WW2 and just before.

Whereas people in Germany in the 1960s started to admit the horrors they were responsible for in WW2, the Japanese still seem not to.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 years ago

Another animated movie, Antz, was released the same year:

Worker Ant: A worker? That's impossible. A worker can't do anything, except work.
Female Ant: Yeah. It's not like we got a choice.
Azteca: We do have a choice. [...]
Worker Ant: Wait a second. You're tellin' me, I don't have to be here?
Female Ant: We've got a choice?
Worker Ant: The authorities don't want you to know, but 
we don't have to work on the tunnel any more.
Worker Ant: It's the workers who control the means of production.
[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Please, summarize the article instead of regurgitating their bad titles - or even better don't post links from sources that use bad clickbaity titles.

We don't have to let Lemmy devolve into Facebook/Twitter/reddit/...

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago

be deprived of tax benefits, although it could still operate as an entity in Japan.

Religions fleece people who are too stupid to differentiate between reality and fairy tales. These are probably the same people who keep voting for politicians and parties that allow tax benefits for religions.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca -2 points 2 years ago

To possibly fix this, vote for people who'll start drastic geo-engineering and who'll make laws that'll jail everyone who:

  1. has kids unless their community has a fertility rate of 0.01 (this needs to stay in place for several decades),
  2. drives vehicles that run on fossil fuels or electricity,
  3. flies,
  4. ...

The nazis killed millions of people. If you have a kid in a community with a fertility rate more than 0.01, drive, or fly, despite our current human overpopulation, then you'll be killing billions of people and causing a mass extinction event by making the biosphere unlivable.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"Please stop torturing us to death." - 2 trillion fish per year.

"Please stop enslaving us in torturous conditions." - hundred of billions of factory farmed animals per year.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago

how to encourage young people to start families and lift Japan’s chronically low birthrate.

Do they also encourage people to fly, drive, set fire to oil fields, melt permafrost covering methane, work for fossil fuel companies?

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