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Covid put a minuscule dent into the carbon emmision, but we are basically back to normal. Death don't have a great effect as the general carbon production (oil
by h4kor 5y ago
Covid put a minuscule dent into the carbon emmision, but we are basically back to normal.
Death don't have a great effect as the general carbon production (oil, coal, gas) are still rising.
- thewhitetulip 5y agoTrue. But I was thinking that since a million people have died there would be some dent in carbon
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- _Algernon_ 5y agoA million deaths assuming they reduce carbon emissions equally would only be 0.0125%. In reality considering that vaccines are unevenly distributed in favor of countries with high CO2 emissions, it's likely much less than that.
- rcMgD2BwE72F 5y agoMost deaths are of old people who had few years to live. They were also not consuming much. And they would not have more children. The CO2 impact of these deaths is negligible if not positive (in the bad sense) because the disruption of Covid will end up emitting more CO2 than business as usual (a lot of investment could have been used to fight climate change but were diverted to fight Covid and to support the industries that are the most in troubles (which are the most polluting ones).
- InsomniacL 5y ago4,300,000 covid deaths[0] 7,885,000,000 world population [1] 0.05% of the world population has died from covid. Numbers may be wildly wrong but would have little overall effect. [0] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ [1] https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/ https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/