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Re:Environmental impacts of food consumption by dogs and cat... by LaserHodl on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @06:18PM (#26417835)
Not at this scale.

Personally I hope that lockdowns continue because that is what is best for the environment. If the next generation has to be sacrificed to save the planet, then that's a cost we should be willing to impress upon them.

Probably not very popular, but I think mandatory birth control AS WELL as impossible meats are in our near future (or should be).

Re:Environmental impacts of food consumption by dogs and cat... by read_if_gay_ on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @06:22PM (#26417893)
Let's just decimate ourselves until we reach our climate goals! Who wants to go first?
Re:Environmental impacts of food consumption by dogs and cat... by LaserHodl on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @06:25PM (#26417925)
Depopulation can happen the kind way or the terrible way. We need to choose. Mandatory birth control with racial justice quotas will allow the species to continue in the most equitable way, even correcting for systemic racism. All without sacrificing nature.
Re:Environmental impacts of food consumption by dogs and cat... by vimy on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @06:31PM (#26417993)
Wow. Just wow. It’s really scary when people think like this. It sounds like a fascist dystopia I want no part of. Do you realize you’re advocating genocide in the name of social justice?
Re:Environmental impacts of food consumption by dogs and cat... by LaserHodl on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @06:52PM (#26418240)
No: genocide is what white people did to native Americans.

I'm talking about the opposite: preventing catastrophic global warming and creating a better world by performing natural selection intentionally and gradually.

In all reality, I'm not even advocating it. I'm merely observing that we are heading towards needing mandatory birth control, and once that happens there will be a societal conversation about who gets to procreate.

If we make it a based on capitalism then only those who prop up white supremacy gets to procreate. That is not equitable: the conversation will move towards racial justice and the social collective will override capitalism.

Re:Environmental impacts of food consumption by dogs and cat... by filoleg on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @07:06PM (#26418354)
>performing natural selection intentionally and gradually

Because natural selection operates on the basis of racial quotas that were intentionally set by other humans? Nothing about this sounds natural to me. Neither does it sound right either, for that matter.

Re:Environmental impacts of food consumption by dogs and cat... by mcbuilder on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @06:44PM (#26418128)
Who makes these racial justice quotas? You realize Africa is growing faster than developing countries I hope, so the unfortunate consequence would be limiting black and brown people from reproducing. Same with the developing countries polluting more, the first world already went through that dirty industrializing stage but the developing world hasn't yet. Seems pretty dystopian to me.

If you're concerned about racial justice as represented by population, there seems to be a natural effect that more educated, read whiter, populations reproduce less. I'm pretty sure if we sent every black person to Harvard and systematically limited white education, you'd get a lot more white babies and less black ones.

Re:Environmental impacts of food consumption by dogs and cat... by read_if_gay_ on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @06:36PM (#26418035)
A racial justice quota? I hope I'm misunderstanding or falling for bait, but that's literally systemic racism?
Re:Environmental impacts of food consumption by dogs and cat... by LaserHodl on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @06:44PM (#26418138)
It's not bait.

It would only be systematic if the Gov forced it on people. On the other hand, if the social collective moved to dismantle systemic racism by voluntarily choosing to create systems that, over time, rebalance racial populations - that would not be systemic racism.

Rebalancing out white bodies is the opposite of systemic racism.

Re:Environmental impacts of food consumption by dogs and cat... by read_if_gay_ on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @06:52PM (#26418238)
Counter-racism is still racism. And racial populations not being exactly equally large does not imply racism either.
Re:Environmental impacts of food consumption by dogs and cat... by mizzack on Thursday March 11, 2021 @05:18AM (#26422364)
The ends of the horseshoe are touching.