• DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works
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    20 hours ago

    “Remember when Elon said” is really low-hanging fruit. There’s like a brazilian things he’s said that are total bullshit.

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      14 hours ago

      I don’t believe in killing people or limiting births as a solution to ecological problems.

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      If that’s what you believe in, I just would like to tell you: Killing one American causes the same reduction in carbon emissions as killing ten congonese people. So if you’re gonna be an ecofascist, I just want you to understand which people are living lifestyles most incompatible with life on Earth. Please use that information however you want.

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      18 hours ago

      Thats just a weird and uninformered though common opinion. Sure, if Elon was in charge he’d just start handing out food and get angry when that doesn’t work. That’s not a solution though in any way. No hate to you this opinion just annoys me

      Solving world hunger means expanding food infrustructure. More growing (locally), more distribution, and finally in places moving populations if we want 100% coverage. These are perminent solutions (with maintanance cost, though that would be offset by the economic benefits indirectly). This doesn’t increase food prices, it decreases them.

      No though, overpopulation on scale isn’t going to happen. Food deaths are not the most common form of deaths in these countries and population booms only happen at scale after industrialization. Not after food scarcity is removed.

      Lastly, one child policies are stupid. Populations should boom post industrialization. They even out in time and if you fuck with that natural system you get massive issues. Any one child policy will cause incredibly fucked up situations while it’s in effect, limit the growth of industry, cause the populance to grow angrier, and long term create unstable generations with wildly disfunctional population statistics. Too many males, disolution of smaller minority groups, and sociatal trauma from the killing of unwanted offspring.

      This creates a society where birth characteristics are over-valued.

      Lastly, this creates a “bump” generation without the economic boon that comes from the population boost.

      One kid policies don’t work, damage society in lasting ways, and the problem they purport to solve isn’t nearly as big as those created by the act.

      No, feeding the world would not cause some great disaster, even if its done in a shit way.

      Populations wouldn’t explode just from food security, the people would have quite a bit of time before infrustructure degrades far enough to be irreparable.

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      21 hours ago

      this shit got me so fucking triggered I had to remove my previous comment. Read Martin Caparros’ book Hunger and say that again.

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        18 hours ago

        Incase this comment gets deleted, the writer suggests Martin Caparros Hunger: the oldest problem. Great book, wish op was kinder to ensure the reccomendation stays. Not a clue how this comm is on that though

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          11 hours ago

          The only proper reaction to such first world supremacism would be a punch in the face, not an angry internet comment, so I had to remove it because that would only embarass the cause and get me banned.

          Guy’s literally fucking saying we should keep billions of people starving because he needs his bigmac cheap.

          10 calories to produce a calorie of beef. 100 people starving for the price of one American barbeque party. But a man needs his steak.