Population Counts Scaling down human population is the bottom line. All other discussions pale in comparison.

Time for us all to get real about our land's biomass carrying capacity,
... & stop pretending we can go on degrading our land, the commons, or other people's land... to support growing populations.

Kamala Harris, 'As of this morning 4 million women in this state woke up with fewer reproductive freedoms than they did last night. '

Florida has introduced draconian, medieval, restrictions on the basic rights of women.
reuters.com/world/us/vp-ha…

'After they find out I’m married, they ask how many kids I have. (I don’t have any.) Then they ask when we’re planning to have kids. (We’re not.)'
womenshealthmag.com/uk/health/a603…

At the end of the day, 'Green Growth' is Growth and, at 8bn, there is practically nothing we do that doesn't have an impact on planet Earth's fragile ecosystem.

We need to scale down ... everything.
dw.com/en/germanys-wi…

Population Counts Enrico 威航 🤔🤬🤯 кпсс ✊🏿 Yes. It's a really hamfisted choice for a joke - insect populations are plummeting and the loss of pollinators will collapse the food chain if it isn't halted.
theguardian.com/environment/20…

The Labour Party in England seems to have become as stupid as the Labour Party in Australia when it comes to the environment.
Imagine standing against a campaign for cleaner air!

Left, Right & Centre, they are all enslaved by economic growth at the expense of the environment.

The Socialist Worker tries to pretend that Socialism (just like Capitalism) doesn't need ever more economic growth aka natural resource exploitation on a finite planet. ...
socialistworker.co.uk/what-we-stand-…

Here is a meteor of mass destruction hurtling towards us. But, just as in the film 'Don't Look Up', it is largely ignored by mainstream media...
cleantechnica.com/2024/04/01/imm…

'Switzerland is set to hold a vote on measures designed to limit immigration and stop the population hitting 10 million before 2050'.

Switzerland has nearly four times the population that it could support from its own internal biomass.
courthousenews.com/swiss-set-to-v…

It took 3.8 billion years for 10 million species to slowly evolve on Earth. It has taken just a few hundred years for just one of those species to usher in a global ecosystem collapse which is the biggest extinction event on the planet

#ClimateCrisis #ecology #economics …

'Tesla Model S battery needs 62.6 kgs of lithium...& they don’t address the additional mining electric vehicles will demand to produce.. cobalt (14 kgs), manganese (20 kgs), and copper (upwards of 80 kgs) per car.'

'Green growth' is... ... 'Growth'.
thenation.com/article/enviro…

'There’s nothing wrong with governments pursuing family-friendly packages for other reasons but if they’re fretting about ageing and shrinking populations, then they need to find other solutions.'
... Yes! Like not 'fretting' about it but embracing it.
channelnewsasia.com/commentary/bir…

Why doesn't our species stay away from the habitats of vulnerable, endangered, marine creatures?

Humans kill 100 million sharks a year!
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-689095…

Thought that humanity had solved the Ozone layer problem? ... think again.
Just one more human method of bringing about ecological collapse & the 6th mass extinction ☹️
sciencealert.com/antarcticas-ex…

'One way to describe this <abortion law in Idaho> ... is to say that Idaho’s abortion law has come into conflict with medical best practice. Another way to describe it is to say that the law has forced pregnant women to flee the state for their lives.'
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Attenborough: “Since 2000 nearly 750,000 sq miles (1.9m sqkm) of habitat has been lost (about eight times the size of the UK) and one of the biggest causes is food production..
Today almost half of the world's habitable land is being used for agriculture.”
bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

Population, or consumption? Why not both?

Let's stop the unproductive debates over false dichotomies and get to the real work of tackling #overshoot . Prof Phoebe Barnard @phoebebarnard.bsky.social
Stable Planet Alliance
populationbalance.org/podcast/phoebe…

'Funding for international family planning programs has stalled, while the number of women in need of contraception keeps growing. Empowering women to choose whether and when to get pregnant is key to fulfilling basic human rights'

populationconnection.org/blog/what-has-…