55
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2024
55 points (89.9% liked)
World News
39467 readers
2181 users here now
A community for discussing events around the World
Rules:
-
Rule 1: posts have the following requirements:
- Post news articles only
- Video links are NOT articles and will be removed.
- Title must match the article headline
- Not United States Internal News
- Recent (Past 30 Days)
- Screenshots/links to other social media sites (Twitter/X/Facebook/Youtube/reddit, etc.) are explicitly forbidden, as are link shorteners.
-
Rule 2: Do not copy the entire article into your post. The key points in 1-2 paragraphs is allowed (even encouraged!), but large segments of articles posted in the body will result in the post being removed. If you have to stop and think "Is this fair use?", it probably isn't. Archive links, especially the ones created on link submission, are absolutely allowed but those that avoid paywalls are not.
-
Rule 3: Opinions articles, or Articles based on misinformation/propaganda may be removed. Sources that have a Low or Very Low factual reporting rating or MBFC Credibility Rating may be removed.
-
Rule 4: Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, anti-religious, or ableist will be removed. “Ironic” prejudice is just prejudiced.
-
Posts and comments must abide by the lemmy.world terms of service UPDATED AS OF 10/19
-
Rule 5: Keep it civil. It's OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It's NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
-
Rule 6: Memes, spam, other low effort posting, reposts, misinformation, advocating violence, off-topic, trolling, offensive, regarding the moderators or meta in content may be removed at any time.
-
Rule 7: We didn't USED to need a rule about how many posts one could make in a day, then someone posted NINETEEN articles in a single day. Not comments, FULL ARTICLES. If you're posting more than say, 10 or so, consider going outside and touching grass. We reserve the right to limit over-posting so a single user does not dominate the front page.
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
Lemmy World Partners
News !news@lemmy.world
Politics !politics@lemmy.world
World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world
Recommendations
For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/
- Consider including the article’s mediabiasfactcheck.com/ link
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
It would be hard to sustain this level of growth even if there wasn't a tiny amount of individuals hoarding resources.
Now now, if you keep that line of thinking up you might get banned for being malthusian.
I mean...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusianism
But it's important to make the distinction between preventative and positive population control.
One is stuff like birth control, the other would be the stuff that should be banned
Lemmy.world did add that "harm no living thing" thing a while ago, but I don't think they're banning people for encouraging the use of condoms...
That's is factually false, check your sources.
There is no such things as infinite growth, the idiots in power drool so much for it in economics that they project it all their propaganda. Human population growth will not go on forever, as people will make less and less babies the more living condition better. And if they don't, we will die enough to stabilize
If that's false, then it's easy.
And on a long enough timeline, it would stop being easy.
I don't think you understand the comment you replied to.
Are your implying infinite growth of Human population? Are you implying we don't have enough resources for the 9 to 10 billion people peak estimated by 2100? Because it's not gonna grow larger than that, the data is skewed because countries that formerly had a lot of infant deaths used to compensate with higher birth rates, but with living conditions rising babies don't die as often but it takes one or two generations before people catch on to that and stop making babies like crazy.
I don't think you understand that overpopulation theory is bogus pseudoscience
When I replied it was just the first line.
Then you added another paragraph, talking about something no one else has talked about...
But it seems like you heard someone talk about "infinite growth" in terms of profits and think that applies to everything?
If you weren't so argumentative, I probably could have helped you understand this.
I added it less than 5 minutes after I posted it, since I figured I wrote too little and wanted to make my point clearer.
Maybe I wouldn't have been so argumentative if you wouldn't have been condescending in the first place.
And yes, the idea of overpopulation comes from false premises about an exponential growth in human population which is very improbable to happen because birth rates in the global North are declining and so will those in the global South once children stop dropping like flies because of inhuman conditions forced on them by the powers that be.
If I am so argumentative it is because overpop theory is rooted in racist arguments and is in my opinion a damaging idea to one's view of the world and I am so tired of seeing everyone taking it for granted when really there's nothing granted about it. It subtracts dialectical energy from actual issues and is ultimately just capitalist propaganda in my view
Everyone’s hoarding resources. Some are just better at it and luckier than others. Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe!
Sustaining this level of growth forever wouldn’t work even if all resources were distributed fairly. Norman Borlaug bought us some time but that’s essentially a constant factor on linear production vs exponential growth. Exponential growth always wins.