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That's true if we continue to insist on squeezing as many billions of people onto the planet as possible. If we aimed at having a sustainable global population
by StanislavPetrov 4y ago
That's true if we continue to insist on squeezing as many billions of people onto the planet as possible. If we aimed at having a sustainable global population we could stop man-made climate change (as opposed to the naturally changing climate that plunges us into ice-ages periodically) without condemning billions to poverty.
- thaumasiotes 4y ago> man-made climate change (as opposed to the naturally changing climate that plunges us into ice-ages periodically) We're in one of those ice ages right now.
- thaumasiotes 4y agoInteresting to see the downvotes. Compare wikipedia: > An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. Earth's climate alternates between ice ages and greenhouse periods, during which there are no glaciers on the planet. Earth is currently in the Quaternary glaciation. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age ) > geologists describe the entire time period [from 2.58 million years ago] up to the present as an "ice age" > Since planet Earth still has ice sheets, geologists consider the Quaternary glaciation to be ongoing, with the Earth now experiencing an interglacial period. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_glaciation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_glaciation ) Until the polar ice caps have disappeared, we're in an ice age by definition. There is of course an obvious implication that the naturally-changing climate periodically takes us out of ice ages, too.
- fallingfrog 4y agoTechnically correct but deceptive; we are in an interglacial period in a larger ice age