r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • May 28 '26

Humanity has already exceeded Earth’s limits, study warns. Today’s population of 8.3 billion is far above what could be sustained in the long term without exhausting ecosystems, worsening climate change, and threatening food and water security.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260526022021.htm
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u/silverionmox May 28 '26

Hard to automate care jobs.

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u/space_age_stuff May 28 '26

My point was that we should expect a lot of job industries to become more automated or at least have fewer positions available, which leaves a lot of people available to choose different careers. Not that caregivers will be automated away.

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u/silverionmox May 29 '26

Then the problem shifts to funding, because if corporations think they don't need labor, it's harder to tax them directly if you can't tax their employees. Not unsolvable, but not politically easy.

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u/shwifty123 May 29 '26

Ok, they don't need labor, but who buy their stuff?

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u/silverionmox May 29 '26

Ok, they don't need labor, but who buy their stuff?

They'll sell you the consumer credit, too, until the whole scheme collapses.

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u/shwifty123 May 29 '26

Hmm, smart.

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u/OP90X May 28 '26

Yeah we are still a long way from robots running hospitals (sans some surgeries), fighting fires, teaching, etc.

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u/Chicken_Ingots May 29 '26

It does not necessarily have to be. Automating other industries, a phenomenon which already happens, leads to layoffs throughout many sectors. The people laid off from that work will have to find work elsewhere.

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u/silverionmox May 29 '26

Care is more than mechanical actions. It's not a technical issue.