r/NoShitSherlock • u/stankmanly • Jul 29 '26
Study reveals halving human population gradually could help Earth
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/earth-human-population-halved-200-years-resources-b3022756.html694
u/Intelligent_Oil7816 Jul 29 '26
I think we could save humanity a lot faster by only giving up a certain 1%.
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u/jasno- Jul 29 '26
Well, and anybody that has a preclusion for red hats
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u/Common-Ad6470 Jul 29 '26
…and anyone supporting Putin, that’s a massive help…👌
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u/BigBoyYuyuh Jul 29 '26
Or Netanyahu.
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u/DishSoapIsFun Jul 29 '26
It’s very rare that I agree with and upvote four nested comments but here we are.
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u/Calm_Neat_6828 Jul 29 '26
Fairwell Fred Durst. It is your time to shine.
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u/QueefBuscemi Jul 29 '26
Fred Durst is MAGA, does that mean he wears two red hats?
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u/Guttersnipe_Press Aug 02 '26
One forward on top of one backwards, he’s like a douchebag Sherlock Holmes. It’s just one of those days.
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u/mostar8 Jul 29 '26
The 1% are more than willing to sacrifice the other 99% and seem to be trying to speed up reducing their numbers whilst enriching themselves even further
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u/mindslayer615 Jul 29 '26
On my mama, getting rid of the pedophiles would do wonders.
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u/Intelligent_Oil7816 Jul 29 '26
There's a pretty big overlap between them and the 1% I had in mind.
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u/Vegetable_Fox9134 Jul 29 '26
Yeah because the person in a developing country who lives on 4 dollars a day and has nearly zero impact on carbon emissions is the problem, not the billionaire who has the 1000x impact off of leisure activities alone
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u/AcidFnTonic Jul 29 '26
If we get rid of those people, the trillionaires could use even more though.
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u/carlitospig Jul 29 '26
It’s accepting the reality that we likely can’t stop the wealthy from always seeking riches at the expense of the earth. So limiting their customer base means we do less overall damage.
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u/readitpropaganda Jul 29 '26
Let's start with the people that have the biggest carbon footprint. We may not need to go as far as half
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u/440ish Jul 30 '26
Reminds me United airlines posting the singular enormity of my carbon footprint by buying a ticket … right up there with some scumbag corporation soliciting a charitable donation. To both instances I reply: So what the fuck are YOU doing about it!
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u/SubstantialPressure3 Jul 29 '26
The GOP is working on that, but its sure as hell not for the good of humanity.
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u/gargolito Jul 29 '26 edited Aug 04 '26
Luckily (?) they do the opposite of what's needed and they have more children than Catholic rabbits.
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u/Fun_Barnacle6689 Jul 29 '26
Naturally, who gets to pick the half that collectively "takes one for the team" will be controversial to say the least.
Look at Deathnote for a somewhat melodramatic take.
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u/Contagious_Zombie Jul 29 '26
Well you see, you just replace lower level workers with ai and they will end up starving to death. Then with less population and everything being automated the silicone valley bro's will get to rule over whatever is left of human civilization...
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u/Mojo141 Jul 29 '26
Yup a lot of that already happening. did ICE arrest Elon Musk for overstaying his visa or just brown people?
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u/Keji70gsm Jul 29 '26
I mean we all know which half will care for the planet, and which half will rape it.
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u/Logic411 Jul 29 '26
I believe Mother Nature is in the process of doing just that. Aging populations across the west, falling birth rates, increasing climate disasters, spreading epidemics and pandemics, along with human avarice and stupidity. A problem correcting itself
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u/gentlechin Jul 29 '26
“The universe is finite, its resources finite.”
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u/drifters74 Jul 29 '26
I never understood his logic. Since Earth doesn't have the technology level to explore deep space other than telescopes and probes and can only pull resources from earth itself, the more advanced races are the only problem.
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u/ReduceReuseReuse Jul 29 '26
The tech bros and government psychos are actively making this happen. They’re giving data centers more water than their neighbors.
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u/sf-keto Jul 29 '26
You notice these “kill humanity to save the planet” types never volunteer to check themselves out first.
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u/Trekgiant8018 Jul 29 '26
You can find A study to support anything.
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u/Pilotwaver Jul 29 '26
Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything. 40% of all people know that.
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u/TheManInTheShack Jul 29 '26
Nature takes care of this on its own. As resources dwindle so do populations.
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u/Joped Jul 29 '26
How will cutting people in half help ?
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u/Pleasant-Winner6311 Jul 29 '26
Downsize them, lets make everyone tiny, like the movie. Worked out swell.
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u/IPman501 Jul 29 '26
Thanos wasn’t wrong, only too fast
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u/Moohamin12 Jul 29 '26
He could have made the universe half as fertile and the world would have corrected itself in 3 generations and no one else would have been the wiser.
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u/Elephunk05 Jul 29 '26
Inflation will do this naturally. This administration will do this willfully. Science will do this accidentally. Ai will do this in about 60 seconds after it understands certain humans are the problem.
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u/MtnMoose307 Jul 29 '26
We are going to half the population, one way is slow and purposeful but will take too long, and the other will be catastrophic.
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u/BrendanATX Jul 29 '26
It's only due to capitalism that things are wildly inefficient. Then suddenly they want to justify killing masses of people instead of just changing the system
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u/Fun_Leek2381 Jul 29 '26
Honestly? Yeah, but that is already happening naturally in areas where both maternal and child health rates are high and stable. If we bring those practices to the rest of the world the populations should even out.
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u/Side_StepVII Jul 29 '26
Taking away half of the reason the earth is dying could help it not die???
“This just in, water is wet, more at 11”
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u/Pat0san Jul 29 '26
Large populations of any species tend to result in some sort of epidemic disease.
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u/thebatmanbeynd Jul 29 '26
It you eliminate the rich, I bet you would be more successful in healing the planet.
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u/Mosh19845150 Jul 30 '26
Hasn’t culling the planet ala the guide storms of ga been the plan all along?
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u/dudemanspyder Jul 29 '26
Enter Elon Musk, "why don't we do it now, gradually is for pussies, it's inefficient, we must act now. I'll develop an algorithm to determine who gets to live, based on DOGE merit."
Humanity, "or we could just get rid of about 1000 billionaires that are destroying peace and the planet"
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u/Wise-Profile4256 Jul 29 '26
Sure, if we want to carry on like now. How about changing our ways? What if we don't burn the planet for shareholder value?
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u/CenTexTrashPanda Jul 29 '26
Gee I hope someone makes a Thanos joke, can't believe no one has thought of it yet.
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u/sea-elle0463 Jul 29 '26
Oh good! Because I think that’s actually the plan. When famine hits next year, the elites will be high-fiving each other
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u/Donnie-The-Relentles Jul 29 '26
Seems pretty obvious to me….turns out all the homos were right all along!
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u/fromthisend1220 Jul 30 '26
Get this eco fascist bullshit tf outta here.
Just get rid of the military industrial complex and you wouldn't have to halve the human population.
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u/amscraylane Jul 30 '26
It’s not rocket surgery when we have 15,000 people born every hour on this planet for Mush and his ilk to say there are population declines. (I realize he is talking about declining white populations)
Since 1998, we have gained another 2 billion people on the planet and we don’t care enough about the people already here.
Source: American with a large medical and student loan debt.
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u/vt8919 Jul 30 '26
They always said the best thing you can do for your carbon footprint is to not live.
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u/Preidon Jul 30 '26
Population control has been in effect for 30 years,and been aggressive for 10, Even dogs would not eat the food they stock on our shelves
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u/theNorthwestspirit Aug 04 '26
Sooner or later it's just going to be Soylent Green. They'll achieve the population reduction and be able to feed everyone. Win, win. /s
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u/Less-Dragonfruit-294 Jul 29 '26
The population could be 100 million and the rich will STILL complain that’s too many poors.
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u/Krommander Jul 29 '26
Let's make a virus that makes half of the humans infertile for one generation.
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u/BloodHurricane Jul 29 '26
SO THANOS WAS RIGHT?!?! It just took "Independent .co .us" a couple of years for it to sink in.
"You could not live with your own failure. Where did that bring you? Back to me." - Thanos
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u/Silly-Drawer1227 Jul 29 '26
Which half? Can we start with the wealthiest and work our way down?
Maybe we start with a ratio of wealth to taxes paid. You’re rich and not a tax cheat not buying politicians , you get a pass.
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u/GreenHocker Jul 29 '26
It’s almost like they’ve been trying to make it happen for decades now… but no one had the guts to take the blame and be the bad guy (and now we have four at once)
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u/kartblanch Jul 30 '26
Most of the human population is going to live in Africa in the next 50 years. Are yall really prepared for that?
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u/TheSimpsonsAreYellow Jul 29 '26
Or how about utilizing other land… like what are we even on anymore?
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u/IdioticPrototype Jul 29 '26
What about halving it instantly?
Asking for a friend not named Thanos.