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What is your point? Yes, HackerNews readers, including you and me, bear extra responsibility.
by perfunctory 6y ago
What is your point? Yes, HackerNews readers, including you and me, bear extra responsibility.
- ArkVark 6y agoThe point is that instead of looking to reduce the population of the West and East Asia, which will have an impact on humanity's economic, cultural, scientific output, we should look at reducing populations (though education and family planning for women) in less-productive areas.
- perfunctory 6y agoLook, even if all countries except of say US suddenly magically disappear tomorrow, the planet will still keep warming up. Even if you reduce the world population to whatever your acceptable level is, you still need to build zero carbon infrastructure/industry for the people that remain. Net zero per person is net zero per person. Doesn't matter how many people there are. And right now, that building is not happening. Or at least not fast enough.