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[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 173 points 1 year ago (4 children)

No more global warming, but a lot more sexual assault.

[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 122 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And deaths from tooth aches, small cuts, the flu...

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 25 points 1 year ago

But at least we'd be "living in an Amish paradise"

[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No more global warming, and i get to die? what's the catch?

[–] logi@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You did a horrible painful death over 5 years.

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Global warming would continue tho even if this happened.

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[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 19 points 1 year ago

And animal cruelty.

[–] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 127 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I've seen Amish:

Burn chemicals and paints in a pile behind their shop

Have dumpsters full of plastic "sawdust" from a shop that makes plastic furniture

Rebrand cheap chinese electronics and batteries to sell in their communities (MillerTech)

Zip around on a one wheel

Ride electric scooters

Log out relatively pristine forest to make more farms

Log land that isn't theirs, without permission, for weeks before being discovered and confronted.

Vote down school levies repeatedly until the local schools shut down

Open a retail store in a mall

These days the amish button isn't nearly as great as you might think....still funny to think about how everyone would react though

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

100% for real. On top of the fact that the 4th panel would read:

POOF NO MORE HUMAN RIGHTS NO MORE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH NO MORE FREEDOM OF/FROM RELIGION

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Agreed, humans are terrible, no matter our political or technological beliefs.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 67 points 1 year ago (2 children)

idk if joining an oppressive religious cult where women have less rights than men do is the answer to global warming.

[–] faerbit@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It might not be the answer, but it certainly is one, if everyone does it.

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[–] absentbird@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also it's not a way of life that scales well to 8 billion people. Wood fires produce way more exhaust at the cost of many trees, while electric heat can be powered by the sun or a flowing river.

Livestock produce tons of CO2, and farming takes a lot of land. We can't all be Amish, and it certainly wouldn't solve climate change.

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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

At 4:30 in the morning I'm milkin' cows

Jebediah feeds the chickens and Jacob plows, fool

And I've been milkin' and plowin' so long that

Even Ezekiel thinks that my mind is gone!

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We been spending most our lives
Livin' in an Amish paradise! Ooh Oh Ooooh!
I churned butter once or twice
Livin' in an Amish paradise! Ooh Oh Ooooh!

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hitchin' up the buggy,
Churnin' lots of butter,
Raised a barn on Monday,
Soon I'll raise another!
Think you're really righteous?
Think you're pure of heart?
Well I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art!

I'm the pious't guy the little amish wanna be,
Like on my knees day and night,
Scorin' points for the afterlife!

So don't be vain! And don't be whiney!
Or else I might have to get medieval on your hiney!

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Close, but how could you leave out "Amlettes"?

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Humans would rapidly organize right back into cities and make up whatever rules or interpretations of Amish law/religion that allowed them to. People gonna be people and ignore or twist religion to do whatever they want.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Humans would rapidly organize right back into cities

The Amish already live in townships. Congregations of humans are generally better for the environment than far-flung rural enclaves with low-efficiency infrastructure.

People seem to forget how much ecological destruction occurred at or prior to an Amish standard of living. Case in point, the deforestation of Europe

the bulk of which was completed before the 16th century.

"Primitive" does not mean "ecologically sustainable". Quite a bit of our animal husbandry, agricultural, and pre-industrial economic activity were horrifyingly bad. We just weren't operating at the scale of eight billion humans while we were living like that.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Yep. Coal and wood as the main energy sources are absolutely awful. Global warming would be gone because people would be dead from the pollution. There's a reason that there were tons of maids cleaning old mansions constantly.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 32 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Don't be silly.

The Amish don't use buttons!

[–] hanke@feddit.nu 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you see any buttons after the button was pressed? 😎

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[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

"Behold, the Amishinator!"

EDIT: Downvoted by a carrier pigeon sent by the Amish

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[–] atthecoast@feddit.nl 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most interesting parts of Handmaid’s Tale β€œGilead” are when they’re boasting about reductions in pollution and greenhouse gas emissions their eco-christo-fascism has produced!

One of the big questions I have about our current Holocene extinction is at what point humans constrain their own polluting capacity based on their contracting biome.

Like, imagine a country like Germany or Japan or Russia or the US having a bad enough agricultural cycle that they experience a massive food shortage (or even a famine) on the scale experienced by Bangladesh or China in the 1950s (or Gaza in the modern day). What does that do to our carbon emissions?

We already saw the impact of COVID on air traffic and the sudden dramatic plunge in regional temperatures that came from not flying planes for a few weeks.

[–] Lexam@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The Amish are the biggest users of private jets. Don't look that up.

[–] folekaule@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Are you referring to this?

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[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Remember if you click that no more porn...

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago

I have a neighbour willing to show me her ankles so I still support this.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

It won't take the CO2 out of the air, and as they produce just enough food for their own use, a few billion people will starve. Never mind.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

maybe inspired by this comment? https://lemmy.ca/comment/18397539

I've seen so much degrowth spam/trolling yesterday. This is organized hopelessness in favour of a hopeless failure of a solution. The only degrowth that will ever occur is through mass war/murder. It is a massive resource/diesel investment to conduct the mass destruction/murder. It takes a very dark soul to support degrowth, because it simply has no implementation path based on everyone voluntarily internalizing BP's carbon footprint personal responsibility.

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