• No_Eponym@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    having fewer people would at least give the planet some extra cushion

    Right, because the billionaires wouldn’t use that as an excuse to dump more wasteful externalities on the rest of us to use up that cushion and pad their profits.

    I read comments like this and all I hear is

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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      1 day ago

      Yeah then there’s that. In my head this is not a solution to any of our current problems, but like a hypothetical to when we’ve got our shit figured out (buried all the Bs).