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This is so comically wrong and flies in the face of the amount of trash and dirty pollution these countries spew. Until people like accept that reality either
by freitzkriesler2 3y ago
This is so comically wrong and flies in the face of the amount of trash and dirty pollution these countries spew.
Until people like accept that reality either by visiting those countries to see how bad it really is, nothing will ever change.
- whimsicalism 3y agoi have visited those countries and also have a basic understanding of economics. my child (and likely yours) will almost certainly take flights, which already blows the marginal Chinese child out of the water - before we get into supply chains and anything like that
- defrost 3y agoChina currently has a consumer heavy middle class population that is greater in number than the entire population of the USofA. Your "basic understanding" is certainly that. FWiW tv and education are great at reducing population growth, Hans Rosling presentations of the past decades show the high correlation between these, women's rights, and reducing population growth. Mitigating the effects of AGW is multi pronged, population will peak and fall, and then stabilise, this is already projected. Reducing insulating gas emmissions comes with changes in behaviour; alternate energy, reduced consumption, etc. Doomsayers don't have to go full genocidal in their thoughts, you may consider winding back on that kind of simplistic thinking.
- whimsicalism 3y agoi at least know what the word "marginal" means, which your comment makes clear you do not. reducing population to 1 billion in foreseeable future can only be achieved through genocidal means, it is an absurdist suggestion. have a good one
- defrost 3y agoI have several decades in exploration geophysics, in my actual experience "forseeable future" has a long timescale, something your comment makes clear you do not think in. "Reducing population" is phrased as an active control of population numbers. Populations fluctuate by other means than just genocidal ones, and I made no mention of one billion as a taget. Do better.
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- insider-trade 3y agothen stop flying? being unwilling to reduce your consumption isn’t a badge of honor in this discussion. there are real problems, you identify yourself as a greater contributor than the average global person, then you imply that others in this discussion feel superior to people in “those countries” maybe stop blowing the consumption of “the marginal Chinese child out of the water”? think globally, act locally