• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    You’d like the transition to happen as soon as possible, but your ‘as soon as possible’ is apparently generations away since you think the population needs to drop but fossil fuels should still be used even after that.

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      9 months ago

      I never said that I want to just wait. We should leverage all possibilities in parallel to reduce the carbon footprint:

      • Increase green energy: solar power, wind turbines, tidal power etc.
      • Reduce energy consumption
      • Find ways to increase prices of products and services that are bad for the environment (not only CO2, but also methane, PTFE etc.)
      • Fine companies which violate environmental laws or thresholds with significantly higher amounts than today
      • Increase tolls in imported products and ban imports of products that do not meet sustainability criteria […]

      All these measures are important steps to take to reduce the average footprint. But still on top of all these things the total number of humans is a signicifant multipler for the total footprint.

      A human can only use less ressources only no human will take no ressources.

      Once again: I do not promote state-forced birth control, I do not condemn parents, children etc. I’m simply saying that if people voluntarily decide to reproduce at a lower scale, that that has a positive impact on the planet and in the end helps the future generations.