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Lots of downvotes for a straightforward news report. Maybe some people want to silence news they don't like in case it emboldens others to be sympathetic to the Palestinian people under attack.

The team calls for more interdisciplinary research into what they have dubbed the “human behavioural crisis” and concerted efforts to redefine our social norms and desires that are driving overconsumption. When asked about the ethics of such a campaign, Merz and Barnard point out that corporations fight for consumers’ attention every second of every day.

“Is it ethical to exploit our psychology to benefit an economic system destroying the planet?” asks Barnard. “Creativity and innovation are driving overconsumption. The system is driving us to suicide. It’s conquest, entitlement, misogyny, arrogance and it comes in a fetid package driving us to the abyss.”

The problem is capitalism and the individualism and consumerism it encourages. There's already plenty of analysis of the problems of capitalism and the difficulties of moving past it. Maybe these interdisciplinary studies would help, but in the end the problem is not so much a lack of understanding of the problem, but that the ruling classes under capitalism will use all means available to obstruct what everyone with open eyes knows needs to be done.

Actually if u look at statistics humanity has been doing more good than bad over the last 100years ish

Where do you find statistics about something evaluative like that? Who gets to decide what's good or bad for the sake of the statistics, and what's the unit of measurement?

I'd add that a failure to appreciate the good is not only due to the media's fondness for what distresses us, but also because there is always some crisis to worry about, and the present is the only time that contains active worries for us. The past crises aren't active and don't distress us so much any more. So the present always feels uniquely problematic, but it's a kind of illusion of perspective.

That said, we are killing the planet, and we've never done that before. So perhaps we do have a different level of crisis right now.

Israel's propagandists are deliberately misinterpreting her and ignoring her clarifications, as part of the campaign to silence critics of its brutal actions in Gaza.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/13/politics/rashida-tlaib-holocaust-comments/index.html

Article 2 of the Convention defines genocide as

... any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

— Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Article 2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_Convention

No, I just somehow managed to post my reply under your comment when I meant to post it at the top level. I didn't have any issue with your comment.

The Haaretz page seems to be unavailable right now. Here's the MSN version:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/its-clear-to-everyone-gazans-must-be-destroyed-israeli-lawmaker-says/ar-AA1momwE

And an archived copy:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240103221449/https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/its-clear-to-everyone-gazans-must-be-destroyed-israeli-lawmaker-says/ar-AA1momwE

Israeli lawmaker Moshe Saada from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party said on Tuesday that recent widespread calls to "destroy" the residents of the Gaza Strip affirm that the right-wing was right.

In an interview on pro-Netanyahu Channel 14, Saada said that even "in the kibbutzim they say, 'destroy them.' My friends at the prosecutor's office, who fought with me on political matters, in debates, tell me, 'Moshe, it is clear that all the Gazans need to be destroyed,' and these are statements I have never heard." This proves, he said, that the right-wing was correct just as it was on the Palestinian issue.

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In November, Far-right Eliyahu said that that dropping a nuclear weapon on the Gaza Strip is "an option."

Eliyahu, a member of National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir's Otzma Yehudit party, maintained that "there are no non-combatants in Gaza." He was then asked, in light of his views, whether a nuclear attack on the Gaza Strip is an option. "That's one way," he responded.

Seems pretty clear and unambiguous what he means. This is calling for genocide.

In response, Ben-Gvir said that the Eliyahu was only speaking "metaphorically.

A ridiculous statement.

"The State of Israel will appear before the International Court of Justice at The Hague to dispel South Africa's absurd blood libel," spokesman Eylon Levy told an online briefing.

This guy's response is antisemitism buzzword bingo.

Being charged with genocide is one of the hazards of committing genocide.

Article 2 of the Convention defines genocide as

... any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

—[United Nations] Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Article 2

Wikipedia

Yes, but probably flagrant not vagrant.