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Triassic

triassic.bsky.social

GDP is a rich mans measurement of growth! Most of us are too poor to see any growth.

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Tim

onepeopleoneplanet.bsky.social

🟨One People, One Planet, the only thing that matters. 🟨Planet 1st = People 1st

GL

Gigi L

gigil4.bsky.social

Thought-provoking.

AQ

sciencetruth.bsky.social

This planet cannot sustain 8 billion people into the future and the fact is that it will not stay at 8 billion. Population increases exponentially.

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Anton van Walraven

avwraven.bsky.social

As the wildfire smoke of nearby forest fires starts to drift into our region, the uptick in sales of air-purifiers, are counted in the Canadian GDP as growth. Why isn't the loss of forests, structures, wildlife not subtracted from the GDP? Why not?

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OgreDragon

ogredragon.bsky.social

its can't we are eating and heating the Planet...decline is written as a constant in this equation...we are losing top soil and making up for that with CO2 production and by converting fossil fuels to fertilizers that are destroying the Natural biomes that have kept Earth alive for Billions of years

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Oriana 🏳️‍⚧️

liberalsuperiority.bsky.social

Noah is calling… 📞 Accept ••• Accept

AQ

professortophat.bsky.social

The best way someone explained it when discussing about data centers/homes taking over farmland (which we need for food) is that we choose to treat money as an ends rather than a means. Another statement that I can't stop thinking about is that we steal from our future to prosper today.

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Frank Winkhorst

frank-winkhorst.bsky.social

Maybe we shouldn't be trying to sustain 8 billion people. Maybe there are practical limits to how many people a planet can sustain without destroying the planet.

AL

AK last one standing.

akchaos.bsky.social

We have pushed the planet way beyond what it can maintain.

CV

Chad Veach

chadveach.bsky.social

The earth is a gift from God, and wise stewardship means thinking beyond economic success to the well-being of people and creation

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Ned Wilcox

nedwilcox.bsky.social

Also we need to be considering whether 8 billion is far too many. I personally believe it is.

NM

Nondescript Man

oldcrank.bsky.social

Oops, went to 9 billion, oops, 10… Can’t go on forever. Our own actions guarantee it

AQ

julzvc.bsky.social

The powers that be do not care to sustain 8 billion. Thats the problem. Greedy motherf'ers.

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eM, The Unknown Philosopher - We All 🦇💩🤪

emerald-metaphor.bsky.social

Worse, some seriously think we've radically undercounted rural populations & may be looking at something already closer to 10 billion people. Makes you think about why we lied about our nature's twice. It's like, even we thought it was bullshit when we did it: Homo sapiens sapiens (the tell!) NOT!

AQ

tobe435769.bsky.social

I feel for those devastated by the fires and my heart breaks for all the critters in those forests. Yeah, climate change isn't real. 🙄

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Nick

nicklaus2016.bsky.social

"The Limits to Growth" Dennis Meadows and The Club of Rome, 1972 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lim...

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Keith Lien

ledman54.bsky.social

And the moran chants drill baby drill. WTF America?

AQ

hatethisbs.bsky.social

They don’t want that which is why they’re slaughtering/committing genocide all over the world.

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SherrieLynn52

sherrielynn52.bsky.social

Farmers, ranchers, etc. know you can only grow so much food or graze so many animals on a certain, FINITE, amount of land. The Zero Population Growth movement / idea started ca. 1968 & the global population in 1970 was 3.7Billion. We are now headed for (in?) disaster territory.

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Yvette Tapptico

yvettetapptico.bsky.social

Only the plant-based diet for as many humans who can transition can save Earth life... 10,000 wildlife extinctions per year all due to one single species choices.

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morhambot

morhambot.bsky.social

you could stop burning so much coal?The United States consumes approximately 731 million tons of coal annually its not helping?

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Greg A

gregarena.bsky.social

If we kept accurate accounts we would discover that the way economies are run, in most cases, is really bad business.

AQ

isogsargent.bsky.social

Pretty sure that's not correct

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David Newman

forwardfaith.bsky.social

Absolutely.

AQ

gigisando.bsky.social

Thank you 🙏 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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JULIE

rarebeef.bsky.social

Then don't use GDP if you are thinking/acting globally.

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Glenn Forrest

gn4rest.bsky.social

It’s not going to sustain that many of us for long.

AQ

augustsym.bsky.social

We are rapidly on our way to 9 billion Humanity has no future

AQ

scarletlee.bsky.social

The only way the current population could have occurred is the mining of stored energy—be that petroleum or the rapidly disappearing forests, food sources that have declined (like the ocean’s creatures, etc).

AB

Artisan Brain🧠

artisanbrain.bsky.social

If 8 billion want to let 3,400 billionaires destroy the planet we live, eat and breath from, the 8 billionaires deserve to move onto the next misadventure. If only 10% of the 8 billion global population speaks up, that 800 million people, we can stop the destruction & start healing nature. Stand Up

AQ

xtrahand1.bsky.social

The earth is in its reset moment .

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Freelander

freelander.bsky.social

Negative externalities

AQ

adalay.bsky.social

Yes

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KatieVanGogh

katievangogh.bsky.social

Ugh

IF

Indelicate Features 🐜👁🧊

micheledoney.bsky.social

This is the main reason I chose not to have kids, and people with kids love to tell me how selfish I am.

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Odin

odin1963.bsky.social

It's time to overthrow Capitalism and manage the earth with sustainability as the top priority & restoration of spoiled air, water & land a close second.

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Karin

juakar.bsky.social

Maga are mental .

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BassRck67

bassrck67.bsky.social

It can't

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Samantha Meows

stiggylou.bsky.social

Well trump and labour seem to be helping to reduce that number.

AQ

thornbury.bsky.social

Mordor has a higher GDP than the Shire....

AQ

0utlawstar.bsky.social

We need to build a systemic rights framework that extends the same legal logic behind individual rights to the ecosystems, languages, and life-sustaining systems those rights depend on. Informed by indigenous rights movements and the fight against corporate personhood. Protect Earth, save humanity 🌎

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Sober Tile Guy

sobertileguy.bsky.social

There’s no sign the human race has any intention of stopping at 8billion. We’re going to insist on self destruction.

SG

Salute Gesundheit

meltedplasticman.bsky.social

What’s taught in universities? Our earth is dying because business school is more important than earth studies. Universities are supposedly where our knowledge comes from, universities helped kill the planet.

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B.L. Foster

firechap.bsky.social

Clean Air - important. Clean Water - important. Clean Land - important. Clean Food - important. Clean Housing - important. Safe Workplace - important. We don’t need toxins in any of these!

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Tony🫘

mcdeathbruger.bsky.social

And at or near 18% of the US GPD is health care. That $2 aspirin costs $80 at a hospital

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Luth Prad

lprad.bsky.social

Appraising the value of our economy should be concerned less with growth and more with literacy, life expectancy, wages, employment, education, environment—measurements of well being. That’s what really matters!

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Jmeyernj

jmeyernj.bsky.social

well the plan is for 4 billion of us to die presently... be take the pressure off a little

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Cheopys

cheopys.bsky.social

It can’t. That’s why it’s dying.

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Gull Gamesh

gulgamesh.bsky.social

Measuring the fever isn't the illness, but by all means, break the thermometer and call it a cure." #EconomicsIsHard

LK

Lyudmila Kutsenko

milaja.bsky.social

Yeah

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Katherine

kag8.bsky.social

ABSOLUTELY 💯 CORRECT & VERY WELL SIMPLY SAID 👏🏼 👏🏼👏🏼💙🌏🌎🌍❤️‍🩹

CD

Carpe Derpum

carpederpum.bsky.social

A man whose house burns down with a business going bankrupt going through a messy divorce boosts GDP tremendously, which some bozo talking head on corporate media will then point to as a win for everyone. We need better, more human, indicators.

JD

Jennifer Dokey

cosmicchameleons.bsky.social

Dead animals/ecosystems as "growth" Evil