r/ClimateActionPlan • u/Amazing-Flow171 • 7d ago

Zero Emission Energy Isn’t this a big factor?

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u/shanem 7d ago

From a strategy perspective it doesn't work.

Those who are alive dictate the future. If people who care about the earth don't pass that on to future generations, then there will be fewer people who care. 

Folks who don't care are definitely having children and passing on their not caring. They will determine the future with this plan.

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u/Amazing-Flow171 7d ago

Yeah that’s my concern people who are giving birth in a unconscious way without understanding themselves first and about nature and sustainability makes me think.

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u/PoliticalAlt128 7d ago

No. Overpopulation isn't real and environmental destruction is the result of specific policy choices. We did not need to bulldoze large swathes of land to build sprawling suburbs because of human population--it's actually a very ineffective way of housing people--that was a policy choice. We didn't need to drag our feet for decades with solar energy, that was a policy choice. People have lived with the environment for millennium and I've yet to see a strong argument for why we could not do so again that hasn't just lapsed into misanthropic sentimentalism

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u/Amazing-Flow171 7d ago

I disagree on that, Overpopulation is real and that same population has demands and desires of having big houses and abundant resources. Policy can outline basics at the EOD individual has to be responsible. But sadly, very few of us feel that way.
If I suggest option of sharing a house with 4 people or have the house all for yourself. I am pretty sure people would choose later.
So, yes climate change is not just outward phenomena. It started from inner me (in all of us) who always feels unfulfilled no matter how much you feed it. Thats why, that same inner me demands unnecessary items which has no use and the unnecessary production of those items led to climate catastrophe. Sixth mass extinction wouldn’t be natural it would be human cause. Because, we are over utilizing than earth can provide for this overpopulation.