How about we start with 1% and see what happens.

But the billionaires say we need MORE people so they have enough slaves of the colors they like!

alternatively we could probably do with just reducing population by every CEO/comapany owner/shareholder/leader/whoever has control that refuses to become climate neutral

It is widely understood that Thanos was insane. Resources aren't naturally limited and his campaign of slaughtering half the populations of planets didn't ensure plenty for the masses. What he accomplished was to teach otherwise isolated civilizations that unless they put aside their differences and worked together they were vulnerable to devastating attack.

The only scarcity there is or ever has been is artificially created by either ineptitude or purposeful in order to prop up the wealthy who are given ownership of land and resources.

If he truly wish for a prosperous universe he would have snapped those fingers and installed the knowledge to create a post scarcity society on every planet with intelligent life in all beings. Because with all things the answer is EDUCATION NOT DEATH.

Eating the rich would do more

population x individual emissions = global emissions

Which number you want to change says a lot about your politics.

edit: given it’s the daily mail *spits on the ground* it’s very likely the researchers didn’t even say anything about which number to tune, the daily mail just added their special flavor to the headline. (probably also have a good idea which 4 billion has to go)

Gee, I wonder which group is going to be genocided by the wealthy....

Thanos could have doubled the amount of space and resouces in the universe just as easily.

The upper crust (the top 1/2%) want the 'herd' trimmed by 96%. This leaves 3.5% left to feed and slave for the 1/2% who will be living in Greenland on virgin soil drinking virgin glacier water and who run Earth's feudal system.

Half? You're a dreamer!

Ecofascism.

Less consumers and less slaves? Noooo what will the investors do? We need MORE MORE MORE

There was this book about a fertility reducing virus.

Most of the destruction is Capitalism and Consumer Society overproduction and overexploitation - a lot of unecessary shit is done and a lot of what's done is done in unecessarily destructive ways (with lots of Negative Externatities) when it could've been done in far less destructive but less profit-generating ways, all because our political and economic structures are dedicated to the maximization of the wealth of the richest people.

(It's not by chance that Ecologist parties are generally leftwing - the politicies for protecting the Environment are generally diametrally opposite of the politicies that maximize the investment profits of those who own most shit and have the most money)

I bet that only about 100 people need to die (all billionaires) to save the planet, an acceptable sacrifice.

Are these scientists with us on the room right now?

The issue with halving in that people will be left beehind alone and sad. We could just remove all humas, this way nobody is sad

Or, yk, live in a different way. But that might be harder than having a lot of people die. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Actually scientists in the 1970s were saying we need to do what we can to stabilize AT the 4 billion we were at then. See Limits to Growth and related studies. Cutting back now would help, but far more damage has been caused thanks to everything we've done including but not limited to population pressures than if we had heeded the warnings then and changed our direction. Some feedbacks are probably unstoppable now, no matter what we cut back.

I have seen that movie. It's kingsman. And the end is fabulous.

Head explosions !!

This is wrong. We can also curb extremely wasteful production.

Scientists

Misspelled Eugenicists.

Pretty sure the birth rate is plummeting. So continue doing nothing i guess.

Fucking paying money to raise a wage slave renter for the shitty bosses and landlords of the world.

Halve Life 4b confirmed.

@laurenceOfSuburbia@lemmy.world [citation required]

I kind of liked how they acknowledged the backwards thinking Thanos had in the new Spider-Man movie and just made it a joke.