The rise of doomers, preppers, and antinatalists on the Left reveals something deeper than the hollow posture of rebellion: a collapse of belief in tomorrow. A Left that chants “No future” isn’t just demoralized — it’s unserious, misanthropic, and bound to lose.
Tldr: How do you inspire people to work for a better tomorrow if you don't believe tomorrow can be better? Trump and the American right have a vision of a future America that they claim will be great and glorious. The American left - and the global left - have lost sight of the future entirely. Instead of promising a bright future, they merely seek to endure the crises of the present - and some on the left have given up even that.
The article speaks to the desperate need for hope - for a clear, compelling, leftist vision of the future to serve as a guiding light for left-wing activists and politicians.
And hey, what political slash environmental slash aesthetic movement focused on a hopeful future just got its instance back up?
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The problem is not that we do not have the resources, but rather the way humans chose to use them. Multiply that by 8 billion and we get a problem, although realistically the bigger problem are the top 2-3 billion or so that control so many resources.
In a world with a significantly lower population, the planet could absorb the issues we cause much better.
I don't see how this fact has anything to do with eugenics 🤷
The argument that "there are too many people and we need to reduce the population" has been for decades a thinly veiled excuse to justify eugenics. Which ethnicity's population are we going to reduce? How will the social mechanisms work to reduce population? Who will hold that authority to dictate things and how will it be enforced? Historically, very violently and strictly enforced against marginalized communities. That's how.
I literally said the problem is how we use them.
So the answer is we need to work towards societal change and structure ourselves to incentivize sustainability, not overly simplistic and unethical arguments such as "reduce the population" so we can maintain our shitty practices and kick the can down the road.
It also isn't "top 2-3 billion", it's more like "top 2-3 thousand".
You are arguing a strawman. Both the article and me are talking about people voluntarily chosing to not have children. I don't see anything wrong with that, and neither with promoting the idea that this is totally ok.
And no, it isn't just the top few thousand. Even if those were gone tomorrow we would still have very similar issues realistically speaking. But sure, limiting the excesses of the top few thousands would also help and is a politically reachable goal. Solving the over-consumption of the top 2-3 billion needs an strong change in mindset, and politics alone will not be able to do that. But at least many of these 2-3 billion are already getting few children voluntarily.
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Voluntary is… an interesting choice of terms, to say the least.
If you can and want, could you explain who these top two to three billion (holy moly!) consumers are and what is characteristic to their overconsumption?
If you don't want to do this in this thread, Tag me in the appropriate toot.