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They are already eliminating part of the population, picking you off one by one. Although it is necessary to reduce population in general, nobody is being honest about it. You are ALL too stupid to bother with at this point.
is it?
there's perhaps too many people to live as wastefully as we do, oughtn't we reduce the waste then?
There are absolutely too many people on the planet. It's not about waste (although that's part of it) as much as there are limited resources to feed everyone and make all their toys. Now it is possible to feed everyone for some time but we will be doing it while the natural world disappears. Some care, some don't.
there are too many people, to live the way we are. and the way we are living is shameful. what insanity would prioritise Many Not Existing so A Few can keep living a shameful life?
population distribution is anti-correlated with carbon footprint: "Richest 1% account for more carbon emissions than poorest 66%"
it's not about population, it's so A HANDFUL of overly-privileged people can continue to waste energy on eg. nice frosty transparent dialog boxes serving them slop advertising on their smartphone as they sit on the toilet - so that MANY MANY other people end up either not existing or starving just so they can enjoy the privilege
I just want to add that I do recognize waste as a problem and something I personally tackle every day and try to influence others to pay attention to. There are many things that need to be done on a much larger scale but without education it would never get support. One of my favourites would be to mandate product warranties.
yep i completely agree. even just considering warranties & right to repair stuff alone accounts for absurdly unnecessary ecological impact. when we consider the direct environmental harm + total carbon footprint of mining something out of the ground, transporting, refining - AT THE SAME TIME AS THROWING IT OUT IN THE TRASH - due to planned obsolescence, anti-repair strategies or just terrible waste recovery programs.
it's also insane seeing the attempts at green-washing greedy decisions (eg. apple making customers pay extra for a charger, apparently as a green initiative) meanwhile they're deliberately impeding device repair efforts, again purely for commercial greed, and this time very blatantly harmful for the environment.
many electronic devices used to come with repair manuals for the customer to read. now it's the opposite, companies going out of their way to pressure chip makers TO NOT EVEN SELL CHIPS TO ANYONE FOR REPAIR PURPOSES. apart from antithetical to the apparent principles of free market, it's just ridiculously unnecessarily harmful to the environment.
(they also love to suggest modern electronics are to small/complex/whatever to repair these days. and in absolute extreme cases that's fairly true, but in alot of cases it absolutely is NOT impossible. specialised repair equipment used to be crazy expensive, and you can get started easier than ever. but still, it's becoming a niche, and sometimes illegal [DMCA], it whereas it used to be the norm)
Blaming the 1% is popular right now but not relevant to the impact population has on our world. Mineral extraction, land clearing for food production and the raping of our oceans is not being done for the 1%.