If you had a magic wand that could get rid of 7 billion people without any practical or ethical concerns, it still wouldn’t be a good solution to the climate crisis because the remaining people would still be doing industrialism and capitalism. It would just keep happening.
But perhaps more importantly, I don’t see any way to quickly lower the population without resorting to mass murder. Population degrowth can only be a long-term strategy based in a societal value of coexisting without excessive consumption, or else it’s just an elite class deciding who’s allowed to live and breed.
If you had a magic wand that could get rid of 7 billion people without any practical or ethical concerns, it still wouldn’t be a good solution to the climate crisis because the remaining people would still be doing industrialism and capitalism. It would just keep happening.
But perhaps more importantly, I don’t see any way to quickly lower the population without resorting to mass murder. Population degrowth can only be a long-term strategy based in a societal value of coexisting without excessive consumption, or else it’s just an elite class deciding who’s allowed to live and breed.