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"having one fewer child (an average for developed countries of 58.6 tonnes CO2-equivalent (tCO2e) emission reductions per year), living car-free (2.4 tCO2e save
by pasta 9y ago
"having one fewer child (an average for developed countries of 58.6 tonnes CO2-equivalent (tCO2e) emission reductions per year), living car-free (2.4 tCO2e saved per year), avoiding airplane travel (1.6 tCO2e saved per roundtrip transatlantic flight) and eating a plant-based diet (0.8 tCO2e saved per year)."
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7541 http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7541
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3kn5z9/stop-telling-people-not-to-have-kids-to-save-the-planet https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3kn5z9/stop-telli...
- thesumofall 9y agoWhat if that not born child makes the critical breakthrough discovery?
- ForHackernews 9y agoWhat critical breakthrough discovery? We're not going to magically fix climate change.
- dingo_bat 9y agoWe might. How can you be so sure.
- usrusr 9y agoThat hypothetical unborn child might just as well keep some other person from making that one magical discovery. Anyways, the heroic model of progress is flawed.
- dingo_bat 9y ago> That hypothetical unborn child might just as well keep some other person from making that one magical discovery. If it can go both ways there's no reason to not have children because of it. There needs to be another reason. > Anyways, the heroic model of progress is flawed. I disagree, but it would be too offtopic to discuss here.
- ForHackernews 9y agoBecause it's already too late, and we're not even really trying: https://www.vox.com/2016/10/4/13118594/2-degrees-no-more-fossil-fuels https://www.vox.com/2016/10/4/13118594/2-degrees-no-more-fos...
- wiz21c 9y agoFrom the study : "For the action 'have one fewer child,' we relied on a study which quantified future emissions of descendants " Now imagine people taking the plane, say 40 times in their life : 401.6 = 64 and living car free half during, say 40 years : 2.4 0.5 * 40 = 48 => total = 64+48=112. So by changing the way of life, you can make as much as your "one child fewer" proposal. What I say is that the "one child" scenario is not much better than changing the way we live.
- hycaria 9y agoAnd very piously hope that the said children will be as ecologically minded, because society as it is is definitely not going that path. Everything in society will encourage away from a simple life.