Not sure what the vid is about and I don't care to watch. Feels like an odd video for them. They should stick to making mildly thought provoking videos about space and ant colonies.
Their ant videos were classics, now they just do pop science that just barely managed to not cross over the edge of being an obvious propaganda stunt to their audience.
I don't like how it starts off with the sensationalist "millions of people will disappear". A lot of this stuff is undergrad environmental science but packaged in an orientalist way to drive clicks.
Also they will never ever confront capitalism lmao. Don't want to anger their donors.
Millions of people are disappearing right now due to dying but when I make videos lamenting it I get called an antinatalist and then told to kill myself.
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?
The audience on Lemmy is self-evidently overwhelmingly from developed nations, where most of the ecological harm per-capita is done.
Even then, I'd argue 20 middle class kids in
don't equate to even half of the ecological harm of one billionaire's private jetBut by simply subtracting the number of kids I'd otherwise have by one, I'm preventing 21 tons of CO2 from entering the atmosphere every year.
https://www.pawprint.eco/eco-blog/average-carbon-footprint-globally
There is simply no way to make enough lifestyle changes to offset that. I'd have to live car-free for 55 years to offset just a single year of a theoretical child's existence... and that kid is going to live for 70-100 years.
now compare the emissions of having a child to military activities and billionaires using their jets constantly for like 30 minute trips
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.
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."
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.
It's just more social democratic nonsense that ignores labor value and the fact that declining birth rates are either due to state intervention (China) or a greater share of surplus going to the wealthy
I didn't think it was that bad. It says birthrates are low because people can't afford to have kids. And it's harder to raise kids now because people are more atomized. And it rejects overpopulation.
it rejects overpopulation
Alright. No more Bill Bucks for you, mister
Reminder that one of Epstein’s projects was funding and fundraising studies and researchers to fulfill his fantasy of spreading his seed throughout the world
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I saw this but thought better than to click. Maybe I'll click
I haven't watched a kurzgesagt since that one video on climate change, I just can't anymore, it was so bad I think I still have trauma from it.
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