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  • Communist_Lemming@discuss.tchncs.deto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Listen to the marginalized ruleEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Theoretically one could try to take an Thanos-like approach with equal mass-murder. Unfortunately that wouldn’t really help, since most countries can’t afford to lose half of their population, without going into a severe crisis-state. Instead we could just eradicate whole countries, not based on citizenship, but people who work in or profit from this country (to include Billionaires who get their money from companies in these countries). Chance of eradication correlate with the number of people to be eradicated (so a country with 1 Billion people in a world with 8 Billion will have a chamce of 1/8). Like that we could sit back and spin the wheel of fortune - “Death Edition” - till we get past wanted population size.

    This would also solve the issues steming from capital you mentioned. Due to globalisation the likely collapsing of China, India, maybe the USA, 1-3 big European countries and a hella lot of of Asian, latin American and African countries providing various resources, the economy and the finance systems would likely crash. Industrial states will probably have the most problems getting back on track due to their dependency on foreign slave labor. This rebuild may again be very eco-damaging, but with enough pressure it could be sustainable. For the finance system, there is the question if we even want to reestablish this system, where all debt can never be fully paid back or there is a trade with derivatives. (Seriously it’s fucked up. In 2007 the trade with derivates was about 1 Quadrillion, while the products produced in the last 1000 years roughly equal to 100 Trillions, a tenth. Guess what a major factor of the 2008 financial crisis was.)

    For not-so industrial countries, it would maybe not be that bad (?). While not having the ability to buy first world products, there also wouldn’t be assholes using them as a trash depot, or selling them stuff to bad for Europe and the USA at so cheap prices that the local economies collapse. But economic rise would in these countries probably cause more damage to the enviroment, due to missing knowledge and technology of e.g. sustainable energy.

    But at least it would be indiscrimatory (as much as you can be in an genocide without trowing humanity back into medivial times).

  • Communist_Lemming@discuss.tchncs.detoClimate Crisis, Biosphere & Societal Collapse@sopuli.xyz•110 Million Now Forcibly Displaced As War, Climate Crisis Wreak Global HavocEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Adding to the concern over the Afd:

    (Note: I am not an political expert, this is my opinion based on impressions from Austria. And I have relatives in Germany. Feel free to provide constructive criticism.)

    Most people who vote for the Afd aren’t particulary interested in their ideologies of denying climate change or shooting at migrants at the border. Of course there are the <5% of voters who believe that bullshit and would love to get Hitler back. But the other >13% who would vote for them are just people who work minimum wage, maybe have to care for children, or their elderly parents who can’t live of their retirement money, or have to care for a family member, all with the soaring rent prices and inflation. These people may not believe in these insane theories, but if you are a cleaner relying on the social system (good in Germany, but has seen better times) you might as well fear that people seeking asylum may take your job, or will lead to cuts in the social system (no matter how irrational that is, humans aren’t rational). The current goverment consists of the SPD (Socialist party Germany), the FDP (Free-Democratic-Party (just neo-liberals, who only support (big) company interests and whose leader eats each dinner together with another company boss, who of course doesn’t bribe him and just wants to chat with him about non-politic issues)) and “Die Grünen” (the Greens, who are, guess what, an Eco party). While these parties have made significant advances, concerning the social injustice, the growing gap betwenn rich and poor, modernising the bureaucracy, including schools and other state funded buildings, etc., it is not enough. Social injustice is still growing and the government, did not meet their expectations. Yes, they were voted into the late corona-crisis followed by an Ukraine war, soaring inflation and a energy crisis, which they handled pretty good (not perfectly, but whatever), but this is not the only reason for these problems. First we have the SPD, the socialists who have reigned with the conservative parties (CDU and CSU) for years for the cost of everything they stand for. In these sixteen years the countries goverment was in stasis, causing the issues the now government has to deal with. Although they planned things like the exit out of coal, when they had to deal with it, they postponed the date hoping they wouldn’t have to deal with it again and again (while stuffing way to much money down companies throat). The SPD watched and now has basically nothing they stand for and they were the winners of the election, because they, differing from the other (big) parties, kept quiet and didn’t have any (too big) scandals. The Greens were ambitous, got also a lot of votes and tried to change a lot of things, making things foremost more eco-friendly, regulating big companies, building infrastructure. Well who would have been surprised that the neo-liberals are against regulating the free market. The FDP cockblocked like more than half of these projects, because they gotta protect the economy from bad social equality. And as far as I’m seeing, that’s the only thing theyr’e doing in this government. But “The Greens” are also to idealistic. Their “Heizunggesetz” a proposed law that in it’s original state would have forced home owners to rebuild their heating-systems into renewable energy based heating systems in a few years, and renovate their buildings to certain eco-friendly standards. Problem being that they are doing the same thing with their party-central a multi-family building. It has taken them 4 years and 5 million euro and they still aren’t finished. Now I don’t think the average citizen can pull 1 Million out of their pocket just to renovate their only place of living. So after months of arguments a very very toned down version of the law seems to be the final one. And interestingly the AfD is on a new vote-record in polls. It seems that if the wealth is not fairly distributed and solving of climate change seems fairly expensive, people who are already struggling to survive will rather vote for a nazi-party who denies climate change.

    Frustrating.