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Yes, the climate wins with high unemployment. People lose their homes, become homeless, that saves a lot of energy. A home needs to be cooled, warmed, light, t
by ThinkBeat 3y ago
Yes, the climate wins with high unemployment.
People lose their homes, become homeless, that saves a lot of energy.
A home needs to be cooled, warmed, light, tv etc all that regular stuff.
If society is lucky, the person will not be able to own a car either.
Also doesn't waste energy on cooking, doest shower much.
When a person is homeless, he contributes vastly less pollution.
The homeless may be the people contributing the best effort to limit pollution.
We could probably hit our targets for climate change by increasing
the homeless population by several magnitudes.
- outime 3y agoAnd if people cease to procreate, it's even more advantageous!
- yen223 3y agoYou know this wasn't the conclusion the article drew, right?
- ornornor 2y agoThis is bad faith, by that token dead people also don’t produce any more CO2. This is not what the article says at all though. By that token, we can’t possibly do anything about climate change because surely that would mean living in caves and never taking a shower again. Or becoming homeless as you put it.