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Because of the exponential growth of humanity along with cars and CO2 emissions. We're a direct cause of the temperature rises, and exponentially more of us mea
by gregschlom 10y ago
Because of the exponential growth of humanity along with cars and CO2 emissions. We're a direct cause of the temperature rises, and exponentially more of us means accelerating growth.
See also this xkcd comic for a great visualization of this: xkcd.com/1727/
- 24gttghh 10y agoI think you mean #1732.
- mikeash 10y agoHere's what CO2 emissions look like over the last 50 years or so: http://johannes-friedrich.com/emissions/e-reg.htm http://johannes-friedrich.com/emissions/e-reg.htm There's a pretty big increase since 1990, mostly driven by growth in Asia (which in turn is mostly due to the huge economic growth in China and India, I imagine).