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Save the planet, hold your breath
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This is easy. Just stop breathing.
There was capitalism in the 17th century. How about blaming the massive consumption of 8 billion people?
I was drinking heavily at 21 and was in tip-top physical condition.
How about everyone blaming their parents for sexing & creating more people?
They're not desperate. Their system still works and trickle money up.
What they're doing is preparing you to make monthly payments for air breezing plans.
We're barely capitalist, it's all scheming and legal privileges and crime at this point. Even capitalism requires an adherence to a ruleset and the rulers we have do not like following any rules.
That's just typical capitalism. The factors of production are privately owned. It's not a free market, but capitalism does naturally consolidate power like this.
Nothing. Humans evolved with plants to complete the carbon cycle. Fossil fuels did not evolve, they are burned.
fossil fuels are natural, the burning of them in the quantities we do is not.
I quoted an article already but here's another:
we humans are a significant contributor to global warming. But, in reality, the CO2 we’re breathing out is part of a natural cycle, by which our bodies convert carbohydrates from CO2-absorbing plants into energy, plus water and CO2. As such, we’re not adding any extra CO2.
which fully supports your statement
So human breathing is net zero because we're just emitting carbon dioxide trapped in the food we just planted?
Unless a significant part of your diet is coal butter, yes.
To be fair, it is a number I would be curious about because I just want to know. So I looked up the article:
https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/how-much-does-human-breathing-contribute-to-climate-change
be mad; read headlines; parrot social media; here's another quote:
In contrast, burning fossil fuels like coal releases CO2 which has been locked up for millions of years, producing a net contribution to global warming.
The article is literally blaming capitalism
Even more important context, right at the top of the article:
Asked by: Peter Thatcher, Lancaster
This was a response to a reader-submitted question to a science magazine.
Everyone raging in the comments here has just blindly read the headline and the deliberately-misleading social post attached, and they’ve decided to be mad instead of using even an ounce of critical thinking. Drives me crazy how much people seem to want to be angry.
Thanks. Keep up the dissecting. It is an important tool to lift the "ragefull" propagandistic discussions back to a reasonable exchange of facts and opinions.
No, no they have a point. I feel like if we stopped say roughly 3,428 people from breathing that the world would start to heal.
Erm, I dont think its only the people but the power structures they created. So there is a fair amount of dismantling that has to happen no matter what.
Looking at the list by cities no wonder they are losing their shit because of Mamdani.
Near 0
Millenials and Gen Z are helping to combat this problem by having fewer kids. And yet, Billionaires complain about that, too. Lol.
dont you mean no-kids.
It’s not a problem
Yep, everyone at or post the 'millenial generation' have caught on the avocado toast bullcrap.
If we got rid of the rich that would mean less people breathing. The solution is obvious.
Well, the only way to "get rid of the rich" is the widespread disbursement of wealth, so actually no.
It’s really hard to listen to blue checked accounts posting on social media owned by a trillionaire.
If people were reasonable, Twitter would have died years ago.
Not to mention while peddling population reduction propaganda on the platform of the dude that had so many kids he had to start labeling them with serial numbers and coincidentally wants to colonise another (uninhabitable) planet.
He's not peddling it he's refuting it. Did you even reading comprehension skill
Well, you missed a word and a comma, so perhaps we’re not all perfect. Happy Sunday Ricky
I'm certain Ricky hasn't missed them even a little bit.
He's not missing it he's omitting it. Did you even reading comprehension skill
it's saturday
Doesn't appear to be population control propaganda, he's saying Capitalism bad. How he defines Capitalism isn't clear, could be anything from /[non-state controlled manufacturing] to /[the west], or if they're particularly misinformed they could be using it synonymously with loose regulation, corruption, and monopoly.
Not familiar with the cesspool, thought that was a retweet or something
It's not "capitalism", it's corporations with zero governnental or moral limits.
It's greed, manifest.
morals have no place in a well written legal system
Near 100% I'd say.
If we get rid of human breathing we will eventually get rid of man-made climate change.
No, no, he's got a point.
And that shit is called science focus... It hurts.
Did you read the article?
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