The D Quuuuuill

i don’t actually (at least not in full). the empires of the global north have already shifted their population standards, decreasing birthrates and experiencing longer lives. the issue is that the global north is also the part of the world that’s doing all the polluting and preventing the global south from gaining access to the education and resources that we enjoy. if we decolonize the earth, people will naturally make better decisions about their local environments and be more empowered to make better decisions about how to be and how to live.

additionally the land management techniques employed by the colonial powers are ATROCIOUS. the majority of north american farm lands that can produce food are used to grow feed for cattle. the cattle are then raised not in rangelands that could not otherwise support horticultural agriculture, but instead in small feedlots. you will note, i am not calling for universal veganism. ecoterianism usually shies away from going this far due to the question of rangelands. but do you know what most rangelands in north america are used for today? single family homes and golf courses. these are not sustainable patterns of behavior. if we shifted our diets to more grains, more ruffage, less meat, and abolished the institution of the HOA so more people could grow more of their own food, our current population could be sustained.

additionally, for all the technological advances we have made of late in the energy sector, even finding that land with solar panels on it can produce more agricultural output, much of the world still relies on coal fired electric plants. many of the hydroelectric dams that have been built and have already destroyed indigenous communities sit dormant. why? because global economic policy is largely determined by who owns what minerals beneath the earth. this is being exacerbated by placing data centers for high energy cost AI computations in inappropriate locations, driving people who are already struggling deeper into poverty.

there is so much waste in this economic system that is made simply because it makes the speculation markets grow. we can live without that waste. the reason we don’t is pure, simple, greed. and what it will take to undo is the power of the people gathering together to say “you may own the factories, the machines, and the land, but without our brains and muscles not a single wheel can turn.” We the people are capable of so much more than we give ourselves credit for and there’s so much room for improvement in this world that ecofascism seeks to ignore by reducing the problem down to just “there’s too many of us, and i can’t fathom adjusting how i live, so that’s it, that’s the end of it”

yup!

this is an ecofascist position. our planet can be balanced if we adjust the way we live, the way we eat, and the way we treat eachother

thanks. i get these things mixed up some

so the other comment reply does nothing to explain, but there’s too much mis- and disinformation that people consume and too much prideful ignorance to just let a comment sit like this as the top of the “hot” algorithm to not give people an entry point to enlighten themselves.

dark matter is not named for its undetectibility within the visible light spectrum. you are correct that we cannot detect much matter within the universe based on the visible light spectrum. dark matter is named based on that we cannot detect it at all. dark matter is more the answer to a question we don’t yet know how to answer. there are a lot of behaviors out there in the cosmos that cannot be explained through the simple interactions between matter that we are able to observe, leading many scientists to theorize that much of the universe, around 70% of it, is made of a form of matter that interacts with the kind of matter we are by just kinda… pushing it away (not like anti matter which causes waveform collapses when interacting with the kind of matter we are).

a competing theory for why the cosmos acts the way it does is because space time itself is expanding as a result of our observable universe existing on the inside of a black hole. my estimation is probably that both explanations contain part of the truth and that the whole truth is that both dark matter exists and our universe is inside a blackhole. if you want a real mind trip, i suspect our universe is inside a blackhole inside our universe, and that every blackhole in the universe contains a universe. filled with blackholes with universes, including the very same universe that contains that blackhole

i’m east coast bi west coast pan, because what the words mean are different on opposite sides of the US

some people are more comfortable doing all of their computer actions from the keyboard without reaching for the mouse. tiling WMs tend to make that easier to do at the cost of requiring some learning

okay. so. ecofascism ignores, or is ignorant of, the role that indigenous people played maintaining ecosystems and the overall climate of this world. they frame the tragedy of the commons as that a commonly shared resource will be overutilized by the community leading to the degredation and loss of that resource. given this, they believe that a top level force is required to protect that resource.

the flaw with this framing is that anthropologically, there is no evidence that the tragedy of the commons works this way. we have much more evidence of an ownership class overexploiting a resource than we do collaborative communities. the people, left to their own devices, will largely find solutions that will best fit all their needs, where as an ecofascist route will generally only allow the person commanding the economy to assess needs and they will do so with their set of biases and blindspots, leading to things like the famines of the 5 year plans and the great leap forward

ecofascism is an authoritarian approach to addressing global climate change. they believe that poor people are a strain upon the land and that left to their own devices humanity would destroy the planet out of spite.

often, they ignore the top heavy causes of climate change. i can elaborate now but i need to go to the store

yup! waaay too may r/atheist types replaced their religious upbringing with hero worship of dawkins and iefused to see what a problematic figure he really was

(the maginot line actually did its job of forcing the germans to attack through belgium. the real failure was in maintaining their relationship with belgium and tehn the french command structure being rather feckless)

Amerigo Vespucci was a genocide collaborator, in case anyone’s wondering why it would be awful to call the indigenous people of the continents of the western hemisphere “Americans”

it’s referring to a people using the language of their oppressor. each indigenous group has their own signifier like “First Nation People,” “Indigenous American,” “Native American,” or “American Indian.” you’re going to have to make a choice about how to refer to people, but as @Jax@sh.itjust.works said, about the only wrong answer is “American”

for anyone who doesn’t know what this is. the dark red is the Appalachian Bio-Region. the light red is the Appalachian Regional Commission’s mandated jurisdictional scope. the ARC is a federal-state joint partnership established in 1960 with the mandate to develop the appalachian region economically as part of America’s War on Poverty. HOWEVER, from the outset there were flaws with the commission’s outlook and approach to the region. namely, they sought to address poverty by setting up even more extractive economies in the region rather than de-esclating the institutional violence enacted against an internal colony. in the time since the foundation of the ARC, the disparity of economic incomes within and without the region has only increased.

there’s a littany of reasons for this, but core to all of them is that politicians look at a map and see economic wealth instead of people. no respect is given our needs or experiences by the oligarchs who control these so called united states of america. they think they can decide for us our futuoe, and because they have an economic and militaristic monopoly on violence, they roughly can. lumber has grven way to bituminous coal has given way to anthracite coal has given way to natural gas has given way to uranium and is now currently giving way to AI data centers and soon apparently lithium mines.

these are sad and frustrating times

the war against the land must continue until all our stories of resistance are forgotten

this style of mining also requires fewer operators than a deep mine. it has had deeply devestating consequences to me and my neighbors

i think cycles of abuse play a factor. just like who makes life the hardest for trans people are people saying shit like “DON’T YOU THINK IF I COULD JUST LIVE MY LIFE AS A MAN I WOULD” or who often is the hardest on lesbians are married women saying shit like “well when i was younger i thought maybe i was attracted to your aunt susan but then my parents sat down with me and had the talk i’m having with you. you’re just cofused. you’ll come around in time. but until you come around you’re not leaving this house”

i think some of these awful ablist people got bullied in middle school for liking pill bugs, collecting baseball cards, or reading tolkein and now “they got through it” so they think other “weird” kids should, too. meanwhile us neurodivergent people think maybe we should try seeing if the world must truly run on blood

and bonobos, chimpanzee’s closest relatives have found evolutionary strategies that work without wars. we have changed our ways of eating and living before, we can again. all we need, as a society, is the imagination to remake ourselves as we have before

i dislike how those of us who aren’t okay with this are just supposed to get on board because “big tent.” nazis operate by getting their foot in the door and acting respectable. then after a little bit, suddenly they’ve taken the whole place over. it’s what they do with bars, it’s what they do with music scenes, it’s what they’ve done with past open source projects, it’s what they did with the Reform Party in the united states. i need people to stop making room for nazis as long as they behave themselves

everything in nature has analagous structures. if you don’t see them you’re either looking too close or too far and you need to shift your perspective. a coral reef is a forest and the corals are the trees.