Re:Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
by gghhzzgghhzz on Saturday August 14, 2021 @12:16PM
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I think the developed nations can learn a lot from those who currently consume orders of magnitude less. About values and worth and happiness. And equally can invest back much of what they took from them historically into helping them develop in a sustainable way. Not through some sort of white saviour nonsense or though some drive to sell them stuff in the long term, but though financial reparations and cancelling debt, coupled with releasing IP, patents and removing any other protectionist policies.
But that's exactly the point. Although it's a bit more than the top 1%, more like top 10-15%.
What do you think eradicating poverty and global development means? Exactly that: A developed world means a world consuming the same as, say, Europeans do.
This only works if population is reduced, even drastically reduced because, quite obviously, it does not work with 8+ billion people.
> Who should decrease the population? Western white people?
Who should remain dirt poor? Brown people?
This is ridiculous.
This is a global issue. Poverty should be eradicated globally, the global population should reduce. Do not make it a racial, if not racist, issue.