Eat the rich and redistribute their assets
this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2024
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Just love your life and try to be happy.
- Don't have children
- Don't build a house with concrete (incl foundation)
- Public transport and cycling
- No beef and minimize dairy products
Not having children doesn't solve anything. That's just an abandonment of the future. It directly harms people who need help - the elderly, those with disabilities and medical conditions, etc.
100% agreed. Suggesting "not having children" as the first best thing you can do is IMO lazy at best and eco-fascist at worst.
Not having children is an interesting topic I'd like to know more about. Do you have any good talks or lectures about it? I mean, we are on this planet because life propagates, it's baked into the core of every living thing. I wouldn't say we have to have kids, but it's a driving force behind a lot of stuff that we do. And it is such a journey! I know kids emit co2, but to me, telling people not to have kids feels like giving up on hope and on life itself.
And I know earth is getting crowded, too. But the western world is not growing at all, other places do. So I'd say, let's make life over there better and safer, so families over there don't have to rely on children to look after them when the get old. Like Europe and the US did like a century ago.
I think aiming for extinction is shortsighted and puts a lot of blame on humanity as a whole for the wrongs of colonialism.
But reducing our population, especially in countries with a larger carbon footprint (and not in developing countries as eco fascists would prefer) is a worthy goal.
Blaming humanity instead of blaming colonialism is the prevailing notion behind eco-fascism.
We would completely solve the climate crisis in one generation if we all stopped having kids.
The top 10 most effective actions by The Week
(In no particular order)
- Join an initiative at your workplace or start one yourself.
- Join a group that does activism.
- Vote for the most ambitious climate candidates at all levels over the next 10 years.
- Buy everything second-hand.
- Switch to green energy providers.
- Insulate your home.
- Choose less meat, eat more plant-based foods.
- Shift your banking and investments to benefit the environment.
- Switch to public transportation, bike or electric car.
- Stop flying (or reduce it by 80%).