People should also be boycotting the harvesting of fruits and vegetables because of how frequently child slave labor is what gets it for us, let alone adult slaves. Honestly, the world just needs less humans
No, the world doesnât need less humans. The world needs better labour laws, the fair distribution of wealth and better rights for all workers. These problems have absolutely nothing to do with the number of humans currently alive, and the idea that it does just feeds into a narrative that leads to misanthropy, apathy and inaction, or worse - eco-fascism.
I realise that is not the main point of what you were trying to say but I am getting very tired of solvable problems being labelled as just some sort of inherent part of having a large human population, because it makes it sound it is just out of our hands. âWe need fewer humans,â is not an answer; âwe need more humans living more ethical livesâ is.
Almost nobody in consumer societies can âboycott the harvesting of fruits and vegetablesâ, but we can buy fair trade where possible, we can support fair labour organisations, buy from more ethical companies, get behind campaigns to boycott the worst offenders and support systematic change in the food and agriculture industries. âLess humansâ is not going to achieve any of that.
