koodiorja · HackerTrans

Unfortunately working in a small town might not be an option for everyone in the current job market. Due to that any action that makes private motoring more difficult should only happen with equal investment on public transport connections from outside the city. Nobody should be forced to live in a large city simply because all the jobs are there.

koodiorja

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I'm not advocating killing of anyone, all I'm saying that getting rid of Malaria is not worth it if the damage done to the nature outweigh the humanitarian gains. I believe that environmental degradation is the number one enemy of our specie's survival, nothing else comes even close. Any form activity to improve people's lives that isn't environmentally sustainable is frankly speaking waste of time, someone will eventually suffer the consequences of such actions in the future. Possibility of driving entire species extinct to protect humans definitely doesn't sound sustainable to me.

Perhaps "because their lives will be miserable" argument was indeed dumb though. I wouldn't support environmentally unsustainable actions in any highly developed nation either, no matter how many lives it could save on short-term. Long-term we have no hope if environmental factors aren't taken seriously. As far as most African countries goes, reducing birth rate through any humane means possible should be the primary goal, together with building economic growth on renewables rather than fossil fuels.

I would imagine that developing environmentally sustainable ways to fight malaria shouldn't be so hard if Western countries actually bothered to properly fund such research. Too bad our priorities are elsewhere, like developing more effective weapons. That's the attitude which actually creates genocide, not the idea of long-term sustainable development which I tried to promote with my comment but clearly failed.

koodiorja

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Good for people who find the idea of spending their free time in an ugly concrete jungle enjoyable, bad for everyone else. I would rather cut my salary half than move to a city with more than 200k people.

koodiorja

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Areas worst affected by Malaria mostly happen to be the ones also suffering from unsustainable population growth. I'm not sure whether fighting malaria should be the first priority if people potentially saved are likely to end up having miserable lives anyway? If there's any risk that that this might hurt the already harmed biodiversity, then it's clearly not worth it.

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I would argue that no news source is unbiased, at least I've yet to find a news source that has no bias whatsoever about any topic related to politics and society.

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