Japan's government plans to encourage 4-day workweek, but experts split

Re:Japan's government plans to encourage 4-day workweek, but... by dragonwriter on Monday June 21, 2021 @12:32PM (#27580799)

> Retarding population growth is _the_ single biggest thing we can do as a species to reduce climate damage

Retarding economic growth is, a better candidate, if you limit it to “retarding growth”; you’d need substantial and rapid population reduction (not just “retarding growth”) to offset the expected effects of near term economic development outside of the West.

Obviously, the biggest thing we could do to end anthropogenic clomate change is species-scale mass suicide. No anthropos, no anthropogenic climate change.

OTOH, most people who want to address that problem don’t actually think that doing the most we can on that unconditionally overrides all other concerns.

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Re:Japan's government plans to encourage 4-day workweek, but... by PraetorianGourd on Monday June 21, 2021 @12:57PM (#27581037)

That is sort-of the subtext of my thinking on this whole thing. Want to limit famine? You will warm the globe. Want to cool the planet? Production and industrialization needs to halt which will increase famine.

It is all a balancing act and I am not convinced any balance we find won't result in massive suffering and loss of life somewhere.

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