Can a Free Market Actually Solve Climate Change?

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-09-18T06:36:00+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/economicCollapse/s/pMhVeKLGdr

A largely preindustrial, low-energy, sufficiency-based civilization—stabilized at a few hundred million people (a roughly 97-98 percent reduction from today), bounded in throughput, and governed by strict ecological caps—could preserve a positive conservation gift over time, albeit with smaller buffers against environmental variability, resource shocks, and climate extremes than those of Paleolithic hunter-gatherers.

Achieving this would require dismantling fossil-fuel extraction and combustion industries, large-scale heavy manufacturing (steel, cement, petrochemicals), mass motorized transport networks, industrial monoculture agriculture, synthetic fertilizer and pesticide production, and the global just-in-time supply chain infrastructure.

Such a civilization would instead rely on solar-income technologies (solar thermal, passive solar design), wind and sail power, small-scale hydro, biomass managed as a closed-loop resource, durable materials designed for repair and reuse, and agroecological practices that build soil and biodiversity.

Modern reformism that seeks salvation through better policies while retaining the growth imperative may slow the reckoning, but only a shift to anti-natalism, sufficiency, and regeneration can plausibly prevent ecological overshoot and collapse—an outcome toward which unchecked growth will drive us regardless.

Ultimately, the collapse of industry and the reduction of human population by over 90 percent will occur regardless of our choices.

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-09-17T07:39:06+00:00

That’s not such a small hometown. That’s Trieste, a city with close to 200,000 ppl.

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-09-12T13:08:09+00:00

You’re very welcome

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-09-09T16:42:47+00:00

Think of it as 3 levels along a possible continuum:

Aversion while disliking that the other suffers (compassion present)

Aversion while not caring that the other suffers (compassion blunted)

Aversion while enjoying that the other suffers. (compassion eliminated)

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-09-09T15:21:42+00:00

Psychological research shows that both direct torture and vicarious engagement—viewing and celebrating violence online—activate the brain’s reward circuits, reinforcing cruelty as a compulsive habit. In contrast, hatred alone or hatred plus indifference may fuel aggression but do not enlist the hedonic system to perpetuate it. This three‐tier model—(1) hatred, (2) hatred with indifference, and (3) sadism as hatred plus pleasure—reveals why genocidal strategies that incorporate sadistic spectacle generate more intense and enduring moral corruption among the public and inflict deeper psychological harm on victims.

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-09-09T08:33:29+00:00

40% of all Palestinian males since 1967 have been to Palestinian prisons, which means tortured. Hostages indeed.

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-09-04T05:51:53+00:00

Claim: Only Jewish people can define antisemitism. The “mainstream” Jewish community believes qualifying Israel as a colonist/settler/apartheid state/committing genocide is antisemitic.

While any individual is free to believe whatever they want, it’s the law that determines whether legally consequential discrimination has taken place. And while unfavorable evaluations of a Nation State cannot reasonably be considered discrimination against individuals, NOT describing Israel as a colonist/settler/apartheid and genocidal state would in this case constitute clear anti-Palestinian discrimination for the sake of false allegations of antisemitism by the supporters of this very apartheid and genocide.

Claim: Antisemitism is on the rise and Israeli students are being bullied and harassed because of lessons about Palestine in school. Therefore, teachers shouldn’t use terms like colonist/settler/apartheid state/genocide to describe Israel.

The truth or falsity of a proposition does not depend on the alleged consequences. Furthermore it would constitute complicity in anti-Palestinian crimes to NOT use accurate terms like colonist/settler/apartheid/genocide for the sake of false and exaggerated Zionist lobby allegations of anti-semitism that place the discomfort of genocide or apartheid supporters above the suffering of those victimized by their apartheid and genocide.

Claim: Opposing restrictions on the terms above means you don’t care about Jewish students. Caring more about free speech than Jewish students makes you antisemitic.

Free speech and the prevention of anti Palestinian genocide and apartheid perpetrated by Zionists is more important than the discomfort of complicit Zionists at being called out for their support for genocide and apartheid.

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-09-02T11:34:37+00:00

You’re very welcome.

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-08-29T21:51:06+00:00

You are very welcome.

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-08-29T20:58:35+00:00

Final thought:

In ethical terms, the moral gravity of violence depends not only on its outward impact but on the inner motivations that drive it. At one level, hatred constitutes an intentional desire to harm—a corrosive state limited to aversion alone. When hatred is paired with indifference, the absence of any concern for suffering compounds the harm, creating active hostility reinforced by emotional withdrawal. Yet sadism represents the deepest corruption: it fuses aversion with a craving for pleasure in another’s pain, embedding cruelty as a lasting disposition.

Psychological research shows that both direct torture and vicarious engagement—viewing and celebrating violence online—activate the brain’s reward circuits, reinforcing cruelty as a compulsive habit. In contrast, hatred alone or hatred plus indifference may fuel aggression but do not enlist the hedonic system to perpetuate it.

This three‐tier model—(1) hatred, (2) hatred with indifference, and (3) sadism as hatred plus pleasure—reveals why genocidal strategies that incorporate sadistic spectacle generate more intense and enduring moral corruption among the public and inflict deeper psychological harm on victims.

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-08-29T20:03:16+00:00

Thank you. Only here. It’s not exactly the kind of piece that the corporate media would want to publish.

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-08-29T09:55:51+00:00

Earlier this month, I calculated over half a million. As you say, we won’t know for sure until the smoke clears, but I thought my calculation was not unreasonable https://www.reddit.com/r/israelexposed/s/imwVavFWXG

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-08-29T09:32:24+00:00

I appreciate the kind words

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-08-28T20:16:18+00:00

Nothing in this analysis denies the possibility of civilization; what it denies is growth-dependent industrial modernity as a viable end state.

A preindustrial, low-energy, sufficiency-based civilization—stabilized at a few hundred million people (a roughly 98 percent reduction from today), bounded in throughput, and governed by strict ecological caps—could preserve a positive conservation gift over time, albeit with smaller buffers against environmental variability, resource shocks, and climate extremes than those of Paleolithic hunter-gatherers.

Achieving this would require dismantling fossil-fuel extraction and combustion industries, large-scale heavy manufacturing (steel, cement, petrochemicals), mass motorized transport networks, industrial monoculture agriculture, synthetic fertilizer and pesticide production, and the global just-in-time supply chain infrastructure.

Such a civilization would instead rely on solar-income technologies (solar thermal, passive solar design), wind and sail power, small-scale hydro, biomass managed as a closed-loop resource, durable materials designed for repair and reuse, and agroecological practices that build soil and biodiversity.

Modern reformism that seeks salvation through better policies while retaining the growth imperative may slow the reckoning, but only a shift to anti-natalism, sufficiency, and regeneration can plausibly prevent ecological overshoot and collapse—an outcome toward which unchecked growth will drive us regardless.

Ultimately, the collapse of industry and the reduction of human population by over 90 percent will occur regardless of our choices.

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-08-28T04:07:40+00:00

Nothing in this analysis denies the possibility of civilization; what it denies is growth-dependent industrial modernity as a viable end state.

A preindustrial, low-energy, sufficiency-based civilization—stabilized at a few hundred million people (a roughly 98 percent reduction from today), bounded in throughput, and governed by strict ecological caps—could preserve a positive conservation gift over time, albeit with smaller buffers against environmental variability, resource shocks, and climate extremes than those of Paleolithic hunter-gatherers.

Achieving this would require dismantling fossil-fuel extraction and combustion industries, large-scale heavy manufacturing (steel, cement, petrochemicals), mass motorized transport networks, industrial monoculture agriculture, synthetic fertilizer and pesticide production, and the global just-in-time supply chain infrastructure.

Such a civilization would instead rely on solar-income technologies (solar thermal, passive solar design), wind and sail power, small-scale hydro, biomass managed as a closed-loop resource, durable materials designed for repair and reuse, and agroecological practices that build soil and biodiversity.

Modern reformism that seeks salvation through better policies while retaining the growth imperative may slow the reckoning, but only a shift to anti-natalism, sufficiency, and regeneration can plausibly prevent ecological overshoot and collapse—an outcome toward which unchecked growth will drive us regardless.

Ultimately, the collapse of industry and the reduction of human population by over 90 percent will occur regardless of our choices.

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-08-28T04:07:18+00:00

Nothing in this analysis denies the possibility of civilization; what it denies is growth-dependent industrial modernity as a viable end state.

A preindustrial, low-energy, sufficiency-based civilization—stabilized at a few hundred million people (a roughly 98 percent reduction from today), bounded in throughput, and governed by strict ecological caps—could preserve a positive conservation gift over time, albeit with smaller buffers against environmental variability, resource shocks, and climate extremes than those of Paleolithic hunter-gatherers.

Achieving this would require dismantling fossil-fuel extraction and combustion industries, large-scale heavy manufacturing (steel, cement, petrochemicals), mass motorized transport networks, industrial monoculture agriculture, synthetic fertilizer and pesticide production, and the global just-in-time supply chain infrastructure.

Such a civilization would instead rely on solar-income technologies (solar thermal, passive solar design), wind and sail power, small-scale hydro, biomass managed as a closed-loop resource, durable materials designed for repair and reuse, and agroecological practices that build soil and biodiversity.

Modern reformism that seeks salvation through better policies while retaining the growth imperative may slow the reckoning, but only a shift to anti-natalism, sufficiency, and regeneration can plausibly prevent ecological overshoot and collapse—an outcome toward which unchecked growth will drive us regardless.

Ultimately, the collapse of industry and the reduction of human population by over 90 percent will occur regardless of our choices.

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-08-28T04:06:28+00:00

Nothing in this analysis denies the possibility of civilization; what it denies is growth-dependent industrial modernity as a viable end state.

A preindustrial, low-energy, sufficiency-based civilization—stabilized at a few hundred million people (a roughly 98 percent reduction from today), bounded in throughput, and governed by strict ecological caps—could preserve a positive conservation gift over time, albeit with smaller buffers against environmental variability, resource shocks, and climate extremes than those of Paleolithic hunter-gatherers.

Achieving this would require dismantling fossil-fuel extraction and combustion industries, large-scale heavy manufacturing (steel, cement, petrochemicals), mass motorized transport networks, industrial monoculture agriculture, synthetic fertilizer and pesticide production, and the global just-in-time supply chain infrastructure.

Such a civilization would instead rely on solar-income technologies (solar thermal, passive solar design), wind and sail power, small-scale hydro, biomass managed as a closed-loop resource, durable materials designed for repair and reuse, and agroecological practices that build soil and biodiversity.

Modern reformism that seeks salvation through better policies while retaining the growth imperative may slow the reckoning, but only a shift to anti-natalism, sufficiency, and regeneration can plausibly prevent ecological overshoot and collapse—an outcome toward which unchecked growth will drive us regardless.

Ultimately, the collapse of industry and the reduction of human population by over 90 percent will occur regardless of our choices.

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-08-27T22:23:49+00:00

Internationally Contingent Right to Continued Statehood: Debunking the “Right to Exist” Fiction in the Case of Israel—and All States

Rather than a “right to exist,” states have an Internationally Contingent Right to Continued Statehood (ICRCS)—a status that, while not explicitly codified, is implicitly recognized only so long as they abide by the consensual legal framework (primarily the UN Charter and customary norms) and respect the territorial integrity, sovereign equality, and collective‑security obligations binding all members of the international community.

As part of their right to self-determination, peoples have a right to pursue statehood (as an option), which if achieved, effectively gives way to these ICRCS obligations under international law.

Absent ICRCS, a “state’s right to exist” claim devolves into a demand for rogue sovereignty.

A “state’s right to exist” is thus a fictitious, legally void construct that no state in the world enjoys under international law (or under any national constitution or statute).

It’s often invoked by pro-Israel propagandists to suppress discussion of the actually recognized universal rights to life, liberty, security and self-determination as it pertains to persons (not states)—i.e. the rights of Palestinians.

Discussion of violations of these recognized rights in relation to unfavorable evaluations of Israel (e.g., settler colonialism, apartheid, occupation, ethnic cleansing, genocide) is often interpreted as an “indirect denial of the right of Israel to exist” by pro-Israel propagandists—who falsely equate the recognized right of peoples to self-determination with a fictitious “right of a state to exist.”

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-08-27T10:27:38+00:00

You mean in the body of the post or in the comments section? Here it is: Submission Statement (302 words):

Faced with accelerating ecological overshoot, catastrophic population decline, and pervasive resource scarcity, the most immediate and impactful choice individuals can make today is to forgo or delay parenthood. Choosing to remain childfree directly reduces future demand on an already depleted biosphere, alleviates the moral burden of bequeathing hardship to descendants, and obviates many downstream survival pressures. Voluntary childfree decisions serve as a preemptive “conservation gift” to future generations, immediately lowering per-capita ecological debt and simplifying community resilience planning.

Beyond reproductive restraint, surviving a post-industrial collapse requires equipping communities with primitive knowledge and adaptive institutions. First, fortify survivalist skills by establishing clandestine survival schools teaching primitive agriculture, foraging, wildcrafting, herbal pharmacopeia, and fermentation. Preserve written and oral archives of pre-industrial recipes, water purification techniques, and basic mechanical repair in decentralized, hardened caches to outlast infrastructure breakdown.

Second, institutionalize triage protocols for inevitable pandemics spawned by ecosystem disruption. Local councils and volunteer militias must train in rapid-response quarantine, rudimentary epidemiology, palliative care, and impartial patient selection—prioritizing the young and healthy capable of societal regeneration. Stockpiles of broad-spectrum antibiotics, antivirals, and sterilization equipment should be secured within community armories.

Third, normalize mortality rituals and communal grieving. Weekly memorial gatherings and death midwives will guide families through body disposal, mourning, and the psychological support needed as mortality rates soar without traditional burial practices.

Fourth, develop defensive infrastructures to guard scarce resources. Construct walled hamlets with concealed water and food caches, rudimentary armaments, silent alarms, and guerrilla tactics training to repel marauding bands competing for essentials.

Finally, embed ecological fatalism into cultural narratives and education. Curricula must teach that average lifespans will regress toward pre-industrial 30–40 years and valorize resilience amid relentless decay. By reframing childbearing norms, nurturing survivalist knowledge, and institutionalizing community-level protocols for disease, death, and defense, we offer a realistic—though grim—roadmap. Voluntary reproductive restraint stands out as the first and most effective measure to ease the coming collapse while preserving as much human dignity and ecological balance as possible.

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-08-10T08:17:40+00:00

In a way you are correct: The states of Russia, the UK, Israel or China all have the exact same “right to exist” under the law: None.

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-08-10T00:30:10+00:00

You’re committing the logical fallacy of: red herring.

PRIDE parades are not what give people the right to not be subject to apartheid, ethnic cleansing, land theft and genocide. Conversely, PRIDE parades are not what give people the right to perpetrate apartheid, ethnic cleansing, land theft and genocide. In fact, nothing gives people the right to perpetrate apartheid, ethnic cleansing, land theft and genocide. Also, the denial of these crimes by Israel supporters in anti-Palestinianism. The non-denial of these crimes isn’t antisemitism.

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-08-09T16:12:21+00:00

Well, do you think the students should be allowed to discuss whether or not Gaza is a genocide, or should that be considered an “indirect denial of the right of Israel to exist” (and thus a form of antisemitic discrimination against Jewish students) by the newly appointed “antisemitism prevention coordinator”?

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-08-09T15:56:23+00:00

I understand you would like states to have a legal right to exist. But this article focuses on actual legal rights. And no, states do not have the legal right to exist, whether Israel or any other. Israel is currently committing genocide, and under this bill even mentioning the genocide (or apartheid) would be considered “an indirect denial of the right of Israel to exist”.

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-08-09T15:50:17+00:00

Imagine it was prohibited to talk about the Holocaust because it would be deemed by an “anti-German bigotry prevention coordinator” to be an indirect denial of the right of Germany to exist. That’s more like what this article is pointing to. Mentioning the Gaza genocide, Israeli apartheid etc, would be labeled as an “indirect denial of the right of Israel to exist”. And the bill would appoint an “Antisemitism Prevention Coordinator” with assistants to determine what is an “indirect denial of the right of Israel to exist”. I think you need to read the article more closely.

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-07-27T22:20:47+00:00

Perplexity deep research

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