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In reply to the discussion: As a person, my decisions regarding reproduction are mine. [View all]NoOneMan
(4,795 posts)Every bit of money I earn to keep myself alive has carbon debt. Every hour I work at my job, a piece of the earth must be destroyed to compensate me (or must be at some time in the future when I redeem my debt notes). We are all born into and are part of a system that generates wealth by dominating and destroying nature, and seems to accelerate in its ability to do so yearly. Do not fool yourself; despite the art, the love, the laughter, etc, our job as humans in the modern economy is to accelerate the destruction of the wilds, such that the machine we are building can more aptly and more easily destroy those wilds in future in the name of infinite growth (aka "progress" . This is why we need less, not more, redundant not-so-special consumers of energy
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