Re:Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M
by throwaway85825 on Monday June 08, 2026 @05:41PM
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Embrace negative change?
Re:Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M
by ksd482 on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @10:11AM
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Of course not. But expect it and prepare for it.
Re:Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M
by account42 on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @10:10AM
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Change may be inevitable but not every change is and we shouldn't stop insisting that things change for the better.
Re:Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M
by ksd482 on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @11:31AM
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> we shouldn't stop insisting that things change for the better
I never said we shouldn't.
What I meant by "Change will always be coming. Embrace it.", is to accept it as a reality, be ready for it and prepare for it. That means, be ready to resist negative change and accept positive change.
Even after successfully resisting negative change, the end state may still be different than before. This is what we have to accept and be ready for, mentally.
Nothing lasts forever. Good times will come and go and so would bad times.
I think as humans we are used to small time frames which are proportional to our own lifetime.
But the world: say climate, population, geology etc. moves at a much different cycle, if at all you can call it a cycle since none of the iterations are exactly the same.
So the lesson is this: change is coming. Change will always be coming. Embrace it.
If you like something, you have to struggle to preserve it as much as you can, for as long as you can, but you can never make it permanent.