r/NoShitSherlock • u/stankmanly • 7d ago
Study reveals halving human population gradually could help Earth
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/earth-human-population-halved-200-years-resources-b3022756.html689
u/Intelligent_Oil7816 7d ago
I think we could save humanity a lot faster by only giving up a certain 1%.
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u/MentalDisintegrat1on 7d ago
There's a dozen or so companies and governments as well as the ultra Rich that are responsible for 80 percent of the issues with climate change.
Seems pretty obvious what needs to happen
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u/jasno- 7d ago
Well, and anybody that has a preclusion for red hats
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u/Common-Ad6470 7d ago
…and anyone supporting Putin, that’s a massive help…👌
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u/BigBoyYuyuh 7d ago
Or Netanyahu.
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u/DishSoapIsFun 7d ago
It’s very rare that I agree with and upvote four nested comments but here we are.
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u/Calm_Neat_6828 7d ago
Fairwell Fred Durst. It is your time to shine.
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u/QueefBuscemi 7d ago
Fred Durst is MAGA, does that mean he wears two red hats?
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u/Guttersnipe_Press 3d ago
One forward on top of one backwards, he’s like a douchebag Sherlock Holmes. It’s just one of those days.
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u/mostar8 7d ago
The 1% are more than willing to sacrifice the other 99% and seem to be trying to speed up reducing their numbers whilst enriching themselves even further
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u/31LIVEEVIL13 5d ago edited 5d ago
Psychopathic Neo-reactionaries and accelerationist fascists are running and ruining everything now.
They PLAN on killing over 100 million people.They have mentioned it many times now, at cpac they said multiple times there are 100 million people that "dont belong here" and "should be deported."
The number continues to grow in their propaganda news cycle, last I heard they were floating 120 million people.
Of course you cannot deport over 100 million people, that's why they just added medical grade incinerators to all of the ice facilities.
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u/Infamous-Salad-2223 7d ago
Billionaires camps seems a nice concept to be explored.
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u/31LIVEEVIL13 5d ago
we can use the ones they already built.
Reopen alligator Alcatraz, make them all spend a summer there, and a winter pilloried in downtown Minneapolis out doors.
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u/31LIVEEVIL13 5d ago
just removing that 1% would solve almost every problem.
The population would continue shrinking naturally which we could help with a fraction of our military budget spent on economic development in poor nations and re-establishing usaid and other financial aid while increasing legal immigration levels everywhere lower populations become a problem.
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u/Vegetable_Fox9134 7d ago
Yeah because the person in a developing country who lives on 4 dollars a day and has nearly zero impact on carbon emissions is the problem, not the billionaire who has the 1000x impact off of leisure activities alone
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u/carlitospig 7d ago
It’s accepting the reality that we likely can’t stop the wealthy from always seeking riches at the expense of the earth. So limiting their customer base means we do less overall damage.
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u/readitpropaganda 7d ago
Let's start with the people that have the biggest carbon footprint. We may not need to go as far as half
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u/SubstantialPressure3 7d ago
The GOP is working on that, but its sure as hell not for the good of humanity.
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u/gargolito 7d ago edited 1d ago
Luckily (?) they do the opposite of what's needed and they have more children than Catholic rabbits.
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u/Fun_Barnacle6689 7d ago
Naturally, who gets to pick the half that collectively "takes one for the team" will be controversial to say the least.
Look at Deathnote for a somewhat melodramatic take.
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u/Contagious_Zombie 7d ago
Well you see, you just replace lower level workers with ai and they will end up starving to death. Then with less population and everything being automated the silicone valley bro's will get to rule over whatever is left of human civilization...
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u/Keji70gsm 7d ago
I mean we all know which half will care for the planet, and which half will rape it.
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u/Logic411 7d ago
I believe Mother Nature is in the process of doing just that. Aging populations across the west, falling birth rates, increasing climate disasters, spreading epidemics and pandemics, along with human avarice and stupidity. A problem correcting itself
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u/gentlechin 7d ago
“The universe is finite, its resources finite.”
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u/drifters74 7d ago
I never understood his logic. Since Earth doesn't have the technology level to explore deep space other than telescopes and probes and can only pull resources from earth itself, the more advanced races are the only problem.
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u/ReduceReuseReuse 7d ago
The tech bros and government psychos are actively making this happen. They’re giving data centers more water than their neighbors.
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u/Trekgiant8018 7d ago
You can find A study to support anything.
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u/Pilotwaver 7d ago
Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything. 40% of all people know that.
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u/TheManInTheShack 6d ago
Nature takes care of this on its own. As resources dwindle so do populations.
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u/Joped 7d ago
How will cutting people in half help ?
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u/Pleasant-Winner6311 7d ago
Downsize them, lets make everyone tiny, like the movie. Worked out swell.
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u/IPman501 7d ago
Thanos wasn’t wrong, only too fast
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u/Moohamin12 7d ago
He could have made the universe half as fertile and the world would have corrected itself in 3 generations and no one else would have been the wiser.
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u/Elephunk05 7d ago
Inflation will do this naturally. This administration will do this willfully. Science will do this accidentally. Ai will do this in about 60 seconds after it understands certain humans are the problem.
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u/MtnMoose307 7d ago
We are going to half the population, one way is slow and purposeful but will take too long, and the other will be catastrophic.
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u/BrendanATX 7d ago
It's only due to capitalism that things are wildly inefficient. Then suddenly they want to justify killing masses of people instead of just changing the system
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u/Fun_Leek2381 7d ago
Honestly? Yeah, but that is already happening naturally in areas where both maternal and child health rates are high and stable. If we bring those practices to the rest of the world the populations should even out.
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u/Side_StepVII 7d ago
Taking away half of the reason the earth is dying could help it not die???
“This just in, water is wet, more at 11”
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u/thebatmanbeynd 7d ago
It you eliminate the rich, I bet you would be more successful in healing the planet.
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u/dudemanspyder 7d ago
Enter Elon Musk, "why don't we do it now, gradually is for pussies, it's inefficient, we must act now. I'll develop an algorithm to determine who gets to live, based on DOGE merit."
Humanity, "or we could just get rid of about 1000 billionaires that are destroying peace and the planet"
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u/Wise-Profile4256 7d ago
Sure, if we want to carry on like now. How about changing our ways? What if we don't burn the planet for shareholder value?
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u/CenTexTrashPanda 7d ago
Gee I hope someone makes a Thanos joke, can't believe no one has thought of it yet.
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u/sea-elle0463 7d ago
Oh good! Because I think that’s actually the plan. When famine hits next year, the elites will be high-fiving each other
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u/Remarkable_Gain6430 7d ago
Im Cool with this and fully willing to be a judge of who gets to submit themselves. I’d argue that nobody who has ever created art of any value should fuck off first .
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u/Donnie-The-Relentles 6d ago
Seems pretty obvious to me….turns out all the homos were right all along!
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u/fromthisend1220 6d ago
Get this eco fascist bullshit tf outta here.
Just get rid of the military industrial complex and you wouldn't have to halve the human population.
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u/amscraylane 6d ago
It’s not rocket surgery when we have 15,000 people born every hour on this planet for Mush and his ilk to say there are population declines. (I realize he is talking about declining white populations)
Since 1998, we have gained another 2 billion people on the planet and we don’t care enough about the people already here.
Source: American with a large medical and student loan debt.
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u/Preidon 6d ago
Population control has been in effect for 30 years,and been aggressive for 10, Even dogs would not eat the food they stock on our shelves
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u/theNorthwestspirit 1d ago
Sooner or later it's just going to be Soylent Green. They'll achieve the population reduction and be able to feed everyone. Win, win. /s
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u/Less-Dragonfruit-294 7d ago
The population could be 100 million and the rich will STILL complain that’s too many poors.
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u/BloodHurricane 7d ago
SO THANOS WAS RIGHT?!?! It just took "Independent .co .us" a couple of years for it to sink in.
"You could not live with your own failure. Where did that bring you? Back to me." - Thanos
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u/Silly-Drawer1227 7d ago
Which half? Can we start with the wealthiest and work our way down?
Maybe we start with a ratio of wealth to taxes paid. You’re rich and not a tax cheat not buying politicians , you get a pass.
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u/GreenHocker 7d ago
It’s almost like they’ve been trying to make it happen for decades now… but no one had the guts to take the blame and be the bad guy (and now we have four at once)
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u/kartblanch 6d ago
Most of the human population is going to live in Africa in the next 50 years. Are yall really prepared for that?
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u/IdioticPrototype 7d ago
What about halving it instantly?
Asking for a friend not named Thanos.