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> does not apply here It does. Because culling the human population by, say 50% in one step, would that lead to positive or negative effects in the context of
by 2ion 8y ago
> does not apply here
It does. Because culling the human population by, say 50% in one step, would that lead to positive or negative effects in the context of climate change, ecosystems and overpopulation? Esp. if you choose the "right" half of people who are least essential for the global economy?
- ehnto 8y agoNo one is essential. Not to mention, you think there will be a global economy after half the worlds population dies off? Like everyone will just go on like everything is normal just there are fewer people now? Societies would fall apart and rebuild over the course of centuries. Governments would be toppled, countries broken down. Infrastructure would fall apart as it was built for a different scale of humanity, now half of them are gone and the metrics don't make sense. It would be messy.
- perfmode 8y ago> Esp. if you choose the "right" half of people who are least essential for the global economy? Could you clarify what you mean by “least essential for the global economy”
- flukus 8y ago> Esp. if you choose the "right" half of people who are least essential for the global economy? You'd kill off 4 billion people who's emissions are more or less rounding errors instead of the ~1 billion responsible for the vast majority of them?
- c1sc0 8y agoI’m sure it would be justified as a pre-emptive strike against people who will become a problem.