OP just fyi but i think that somehow reducing the human population by 99.99%, leaving around a million or so, would not be the worst thing ever for hardcore environmentalism.
So however way society collapsed or for whatever reason, the ensueing starvation of billions due to collapsing fertilizer and fuel supply chains, is the fantasy.
/s
kinda
And what happens when a bubble bursts? Did the internet die when the dotcom bubble burst, or is that just when it really started to get going?
I share most of your sentiments against AI, but a bubble popping won’t make it go away, and it won’t even rectify it to be more to people’s likings (i doubt it). It takes more than just waiting around to accomplish that.
Yes, and not only Ukraine. I would like to draw attention also to the Soviets’ efforts to erode, or outright kill, Siberian native populations, which happened in the same political context as the Soviet Union’s genocide against Ukrainians.
To name only one example, which here on wikipedia is misrepresened:
The Buryats rebelled against the communist rule and collectivization of their herds in 1929. The rebellion was quickly crushed by the Red Army with loss of 35,000 Buryats.
The misrepresenation is in wording it as “crushing a rebellion.” There lived around 215k Buryats in Buryatia at the time. 35k, the number reportedly killed when “crushing a (‘nationalist’) rebellion,” is 16.3% of all Buryats in Buryatia at the time.
Later
Fearing Buryat nationalism, Joseph Stalin had more than 10,000 Buryats killed.
Another 5%. Up to over 20% Killing one fifth of a peoples isn’t “crowd control,” it’s genocide.
This is only one peoples of many that the soviets attempted (or succeded) to eradicate. And i’m not even touching on planned famines, dispersion, or using natives as cannon-fodder in wars. This is ongoing even in modern Russia - native Siberian peoples are overrepresented in the invasion forces in Ukraine:
In the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine since 2022, the Buryats have been reported as one of Russia’s ethnic minority groups suffering from a disproportionally large casualty rate among Russian forces, reinforcing the processes of assimilation and Russification.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buryats#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buryatia#Ethnic_groups
Again, just a single example of many. And not just Siberia, but no non-Rus peoples in or near Russia is spared from this. It’d be worth several dissertations to go into any detail on all sides of the Soviets’ (and now Russia’s) colonization and rusification efforts. Of course, i recognize that the West also has very many bodies in its basements, and i don’t mean to distract from that, don’t get me wrong - it’s just that Russia’s crimes are much less often talked about, i feel particularly emotionally invested, and Russia (formerly Soviet Russia) is routinely representing itself as oh so anti-nationalist or anti-nazi, even as some of the same policies are ongoing in 2025.
Not (just) “idiot”, but evil. The “advantage,” besides populist wank, is creating a new law that is enforced extremely selectively when you want to prosecute people for other, unconstitutional reasons. E.g. “We didn’t infringe on their free speech, they were imprisoned for engaging in gay sex.”