That implies that the non richest 10% is happy with that and aren’t trying to catch up with the richest 10%. That is completely untrue. The idea behind decreasing the world population is that a smaller population could all live in modern comfort. I have a feeling that this comic was written by someone very much in the richest 10%.
Now please explain how you create a smaller population that doesn’t reek of eugenics, and you’ll see the problem.
Nazis also wanted a smaller population so that the privileged few that remained could have a higher quality of life.
Easy. Un idiot proof the world. All warning labels removed. All laws to protect the physical self removed (seatbelts, drugs, suicide, etc). Let natural selection resume it’s work and prune the people these warnings were made for.
That’s just one potential facet.
Also before anybody thinks they’re so clever to bring it up, yes I know I would’ve been one of the ones to die since I was a stupid kid
That is a disgusting over simplification of what the Nazis did and I’m not even going to bother talking to you if you’re just going to go straight to comparing everything to Nazis with zero nuance.
All population control is a form of eugenics, and it is not possible to implement as a policy without it AT LEAST disproportionally affecting an “undesired” group. Whether that is racial, GSRM, people with disabilities, or even class.
Eugenics was the basis of the Final Solution, and should be looked at with disgust. There is no need for nuance when calling the sky blue.
Sorry if the comparison offended your, but I suggest you think a bit deeper about this. Population isn’t really the problem, logistical and environmental issues from capital are. And population control is a poison pill meant to greenwash abhorrent ideology.
Now please explain how you create a smaller population that doesn’t reek of eugenics
Education. People tend to have fewer kids the more educated they become. Give everyone in the world top class educations, and the population will naturally decline.
Theres always the quiverful movement and similar shit to worry about. But im actually fine sterilizing them when their at fhe hospital for kid number 2. Becuase fuck the quiverful movement they want to drag us back to the fucking stone age.
Not to mention the bio-diverse indigenous lands are largely in sparsely populated areas of the americas showing low population goes hand in hand with the better land management. As the comic says. Families, smallholders, and local communities. Not big urban cities. The corpo world we have is one reason when shipements from ukraine get disrupted there is starvation in africa and asia. If the 10% went away we would quickly lower our current population. The cartoon is correct until it gets to its conclusion in the last panel.
I mean, shrinking the population would absolutely help assuming that you shrunk it enough.
It’s hard to destroy an environment when the destroyers dont exist.
Sure, or we could just ban super yachts, private jets, cruise ships and empower those indigenous communities who have had such meaningful successes to spread their ideas and understanding so that we can begin to develop a sustainable culture, and we don’t need to kill half the worlds population.
¿por que no los dos?
Also, not half the population, more like 99.9% of it. Start with the richest first, and work your way down.
It would be more efficient if we shrunk the power of the wealthiest individuals and made everyone fall under a wealthy limit
Why should one person own and control so much wealth when they will never realistically be able to enjoy all of that wealth during their lifetime? Especially if that one person hoarding all that wealth they’ll never use is producing, creating and maintaining so much pollution for one individual.
Looks like the bottom panels are swapped
I’m unsure of the Artist of this one, but the oldest reference tineye reverse image search found was this medium page, which is down. I’ve linked the archived version I found, but I can’t seem to locate the image itself to be sure this is the origin.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210803014648/https://alexcharlesdiblasi.medium.com/
If you know the artist let me know, I’d love to see more of their stuff!
Reminder that almost every single one of us is part of the world’s richest 10%.
Agreed. Exactly why we need to listen to these marginalized communities, and empower them to take action on our behalf and with our cooperation. It’s why no matter how good I think my ideas are, I try to recognize that I come from a position of relative privilege, and that it is likely that even my best of ideas will be lacking in intersectional analysis that is needed to develop real, powerful solutions.
we need to listen to these marginalized communities.
Dude… Why are you speaking as if you’re not indigenous now?
and that it is likely that even my best of ideas will be lacking in intersectional analysis that is needed to develop real, powerful solutions.
It turns out the solution to global warming was friendship all along 🌈
Because I’m relatively privileged and live the imperial core, and thus am not marginalized nearly as much as others, and in fact have a wide array of privileges more than most in marginalized communities. The ones coming up with truly radical, meaningful, workable solutions will be from groups more marginalized than I.
