• sping@lemmy.sdf.org
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    10 months ago

    I’m really curious - if it’s not humanity, who forced us to do this? Who’s forcing people to travel and over-consume? The capitalist hellscape sure facilitates and accelerates it, but it doesn’t force people to over-consume, travel tens of thousands of miles a year, etc… Most of the people who don’t do these things only refrain because the system isn’t allowing them the wealth to afford it.

    The number of people who actually live sustainable lifestyles through choice is utterly miniscule. Most of us have the option of accepting the radical extreme poverty that would be required to sustain 8 billion people on earth, but just about none of us take it.

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      10 months ago

      the reptiles at the top who support the system, don’t pass any meaningful reform, and encourage consumption

    • emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de
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      10 months ago

      It would not take radical extreme poverty to combat climate change or sustain 8 billion people, it would merely require dismantling our capitalist society and reallocating the trillions of dollars that have been stolen and hoarded by the death cult billionaires and ugh that this word ever even reached relevance but trillionaires. The average person would be better off if wealth were redistributed. Very few except the most fortunate would feel anything except relief.