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  • stewie3128 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    I don’t understand the anti-antinatalist stuff. Having a kid is literally the worst thing you can do to the environment. Shouldn’t we reckon with that?

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Having a kid is literally the worst thing you can do to the environment.

      If you’re equating a random child born anywhere in the world with a billionaire’s carbon and pollution imprint, that’s a staggering false equivalency.

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            1 year ago

            Obviously those things are on a different scale, but there are 3.7 million children born in the US alone every year.

            That means it would take 193 million people -per year - switching to an entirely car-free lifestyle to negate that.

            Or 400 million people per year switching to a plant-based diet.

            Billionaires and the military doing bad stuff doesn’t justify the ecological harm of enlarging the human population.

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      Reckon with human life itself being bad for the environment? No, I don’t think we should reckon with that, because the only actionable conclusions from that assumption are “we should make being alive less bad for the environment” where you end up on the same page as everybody else or “we should all die.”

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      I’m kind of antinatalist, but where the child is born makes a huge difference. A single USian is practically the same carbon footprint as some whole villages in Africa, SE Asia, and elsewhere

      But also 70% of carbon emissions are from 100ish companies, and “carbon footprint” was coined by ExxonMobil Mobile to deflect from this fact. Or maybe it was Shell.