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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The impossibility of eternal growth doesn't deny the hypocrisy parent highlights. The CO2 budget we've eaten for our development has eaten (and still disproportionately does) the global budget that belongs to all people. We've consumed way more of a practically nonrenewable resource than the rest of the world, we continue to disproportionately consume more of it, and then we (some of us) go to the rest of the world and say, sir no sir there's not enough resource left, you'll have to do with a lot less, and you'll have to do it on your own! There's deep hypocrisy in that, regardless of the state of the resource.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don’t disagree with that.

My opinion is that the top consumers need to cut down and likely more importantly this insane push for “the economy” to be wasting resources churning away and accomplishing nothing of substance. That’s the part that needs to end.

Along with the obsession with having more and more and more babies which will grow to consume even more resources.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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Some European countries aren't doing badly in that regard but it's a drop in a bucket compared to us in NA as well as the top 1% around the globe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yep. Or maybe closer to the top 10-25% based on this articles like this:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02325-x