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Dirty rivers suck, but humanity's big problem right now is global warming.
by antoineMoPa 7y ago
Dirty rivers suck, but humanity's big problem right now is global warming.
- czechdeveloper 7y agoWell, we face multitude of issues. For example loss of biodiversity is likely as important as global warming.
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- Voloskaya 7y agoLoss of biodiversity is in big part caused by global warming (temperature rising, ocean acidification etc.) Global warming is not caused by loss of biodiversity. On top of that, many of things that need to be done to reduce global warming will directly positively affect biodiversity, such as reducing deforestation and thus habitat loss. So no, fixing global warming is more important since its a prerequisite to stopping loss of biodiversity.
- cfv 7y agoThe problem is we're making the single world we can live in poisonous unstable and dead through short term unsustainable growth, violence and greed. Maybe we can spare a few murder machines for the Imperial army until we figure out how to stop choking the planet to our collective toxic, entirely preventable deaths?
- maxxxxx 7y agoLet’s not make this a one or the other thing. Dirty rivers are at least as bad as global warming. We can’t focus on one environmental threat while forgetting all the others.
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- mms1973 7y agoNo. Humanity's big problem is not global warming. It is uncontrolled demographic explosion in Africa and Asia. More mouths to feed only will make ecologic problems worse.
- godzilla82 7y agoUS mouths eat more than asian and african. Source : https://ourworldindata.org/food-per-person https://ourworldindata.org/food-per-person
- lawlessone 7y agoAsia and Africa are just following what Europe and America did years ago.
- mooseburger 7y agoYeah, and their only choice is to stop, because the US and Europe alone cannot solve global warming.
- cf498 7y agoIts not a realistic choice for them. Large parts of developing nations still have absolute poverty problems with their population dying due to the lack of basic necessities. Having them remain on that level of poverty, or worse, reducing their standard of living further is not an option. Its up to the West to solve global warming globally and that includes providing at least India and Africa, but likely every developing Nation, including China, with climate neutral ways of development equivalent to the potential these region shouldnt take in the form of polluting development options. This is going to be very expensive and not something governments alone can stem. I dont see how this could be achievable in our current market structures.