Good work strikes

'Once we accept without any reflection or criticism that we live in a “grow-or-die” capitalistic society in which accumulation is literally a law of economic survival and competition is the motor of “progress,” anything we have to say about population is basically meaningless. The biosphere will eventually be destroyed whether five billion or fifty million live on the planet.

Competing firms in a “dog-eat-dog” market must outproduce each other if they are to remain in existence. They must plunder the soil, remove the earth’s forests, kill off its wildlife, pollute its air and waterways not because their intentions are necessarily bad, although they usually are — hence the absurdity of the spiritualistic pablum in which Americans are currently immersed — but because they must simply survive.'

— Murray Bookchin, The Population Myth

Oh, also worth noting: Population growth is, paradoxically, driven by poor economic circumstance. This is because of factors such as reduced access to contraception, worse social safety nets necessitating children, etc. Not only is capitalist greed limiting access to food and homes, it's creating the circumstances needed for explosive growth, exacerbating the issues it creates.

Capitalism creates issues that movements like fascism exist to "cure." I'm going to tell you right now that the elite are going to try to introduce fascist policies to fix capitalist-manufactured "overpopulation" (blaming rising populations for disproportionate scacity of resources) rather than treat the underlying causes, i.e. hoarding of material wealth.

Don't be fooled by their rhetoric.

i am with the boomers on this one.

Do I get a Nextdoor account? I want to be more aware of what's happening in the local community so I can serveit better, but I also know that there's a lot of bullshit that goes on there

So this is googles save service, not the chrome bookmark feature, but still, if you still use chrome(or anything chromium) ditch that shit. Switch to firefox.

And get the ddg plug-in, as well as a proxy, while you're at it