On Friday, the globe hit 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees) above pre-industrial levels for the first time in recorded history

  • F_Haxhausen@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    No it is not. Eugenics is an attempt to improve the genetic quality of a human population.

    We are talking about an attempt to stop climate change. We are not trying to “improve” the genetics of human population.

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      1 year ago

      We are talking about an attempt to stop climate change

      those are the trappings, but the method is bare eugenics

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        1 year ago

        No it is not. Eugenics is a pseudo-science about improvement of genetics. Period.

        Trying to avoid climate catastrophe is not about improving genetics.

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          1 year ago

          Eugenics is a pseudo-science about improvement of genetics. Period

          no, it’s not, even the wikipedia article we both love disputes this claim plainly.

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          1 year ago

          Trying to avoid climate catastrophe is not about improving genetics.

          if the method by which you try to avoid it is eugenicist, then it is.

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      1 year ago

      that’s a narrow definition that doesn’t really encompass all the ways in which eugenics has been practiced. frequently, as i have done here, it is used synonymously with genocide. stop practicing genocide.

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        1 year ago

        No. Genocide is murdering people. Genocide is violence against people. Forcing people, against their will to stop existing.

        Asking people to reproduce less is asking people (not forcing them) to exercise their own will.

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        1 year ago

        Braindead take. We don’t need more children to be born into a world of suffering.