No car or motorcycle should ever exceed 80db SPL at 2 meters. If they do, it's RPG time.

Communism is better than nothing, but it's going to have to be a global communism to make a difference, since any one of us on the planet can clearly consume 5x+++ their share of resources annually.

Even if we got 75% of the world population with the program, we could still have a consumption problem 5x that of America, because the greatest consumers will be the last to join the revolution.

Climate Stalin is the only thing that might, might improve the situation we're going to find ourselves in. Other than that, we're just going to pollute ourselves and everyone else to extinction, hence my belief that all non-human flora and fauna would be better off without us.

And you are going to magically manage energy demand through gentle suggestion?

Coffee tastes bad, coke zero is great first thing in the morning, and egg nog is better without any alcohol in it.

Who cares

Xif

But by simply subtracting the number of kids I'd otherwise have by one, I'm preventing 21 tons of CO2 from entering the atmosphere every year.

https://www.pawprint.eco/eco-blog/average-carbon-footprint-globally

There is simply no way to make enough lifestyle changes to offset that. I'd have to live car-free for 55 years to offset just a single year of a theoretical child's existence... and that kid is going to live for 70-100 years.

Obviously those things are on a different scale, but there are 3.7 million children born in the US alone every year.

That means it would take 193 million people -per year - switching to an entirely car-free lifestyle to negate that.

Or 400 million people per year switching to a plant-based diet.

Billionaires and the military doing bad stuff doesn't justify the ecological harm of enlarging the human population.

Right here, in living color for you:

The audience on Lemmy is self-evidently overwhelmingly from developed nations, where most of the ecological harm per-capita is done.

Data. For, you know, things.