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> Nuclear fission once pulled off will make things much much worse. Doubling the population will make things worse in 40 years. How is this hard? Double chick

> Nuclear fission once pulled off will make things much much worse. Doubling the population will make things worse in 40 years. How is this hard? Double chickens? Double cows? Double coal plants? wtf? lol. You are the fool. Trying googling "when does population double".

throwaway894345 5y ago
> Doubling the population will make things worse in 40 years. How is this hard? Double chickens? Double cows? Double coal plants? wtf? lol. You are the fool. Trying googling "when does population double". Ooooff. 1. The population isn't projected to double even in the next century much less the next 40 years. In the next eighty years, the population is expected to increase by only 40%. If you took your own advice ("Google") then you'd know this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_growth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow... 2. You're incorrectly assuming that the greenhouse gas emissions scales linearly with the population size *even as the emissions per MWh approaches zero. The demand for energy does indeed scale with population (probably sublinearly, but not going to pick that nit right now), but the goal is to drive down the emissions per unit energy to nearly zero much faster than population grows. Better luck in the future.
- ransom1538 5y ago
  Ok! I will google for you. "a doubling time of 49 years" https://theconversation.com/7-5-billion-and-counting-how-many-humans-can-the-earth-support-98797 https://theconversation.com/7-5-billion-and-counting-how-man... "You're incorrectly assuming that the greenhouse gas emissions scales linearly with the population size *even as the emissions per MWh approaches zero." No it will not be linear. If you have a population that is exponential.
  - drdeca 5y ago
    They said “linearly with the population size” not “linearly in time”. Do you know what that means? The way you responded seems to suggest you didn’t.

throwaway894345 5y ago

> Doubling the population will make things worse in 40 years. How is this hard? Double chickens? Double cows? Double coal plants? wtf? lol. You are the fool. Trying googling "when does population double". Ooooff. 1. The population isn't projected to double even in the next century much less the next 40 years. In the next eighty years, the population is expected to increase by only 40%. If you took your own advice ("Google") then you'd know this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_growth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow... 2. You're incorrectly assuming that the greenhouse gas emissions scales linearly with the population size *even as the emissions per MWh approaches zero. The demand for energy does indeed scale with population (probably sublinearly, but not going to pick that nit right now), but the goal is to drive down the emissions per unit energy to nearly zero much faster than population grows. Better luck in the future.

ransom1538 5y ago
Ok! I will google for you. "a doubling time of 49 years" https://theconversation.com/7-5-billion-and-counting-how-many-humans-can-the-earth-support-98797 https://theconversation.com/7-5-billion-and-counting-how-man... "You're incorrectly assuming that the greenhouse gas emissions scales linearly with the population size *even as the emissions per MWh approaches zero." No it will not be linear. If you have a population that is exponential.
- drdeca 5y ago
  They said “linearly with the population size” not “linearly in time”. Do you know what that means? The way you responded seems to suggest you didn’t.