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The world over; humanity has put more carbon into the air by weight than the total sum of all that we've built on the surface, and it's still accelerating. It's
by silverquiet 2y ago
The world over; humanity has put more carbon into the air by weight than the total sum of all that we've built on the surface, and it's still accelerating. It's a rather awesome testament to humanity, but not exactly in the positive sense given that the externalities are beginning to bite.
- exe34 2y ago[flagged]
- FredPret 2y agoThis is hardly accurate. It's the global poor who are most impacted by a (hypothetical) slowing economy. Sure, some billionaire won't get that third yacht. But it's the several hundred million women in Africa doing their family's laundry by hand who suffer much more, by far. What we need is oodles of economic growth, in as green a way as possible. AKA, solar, batteries, nuclear, and so on. And what that means is more and better tech, more and better deployment of capital.
- jtbayly 2y agoSome people wouldn’t have been able to afford food, you mean.
- exe34 2y agowe have people choosing between heating and food, today, in Britain. we have children going without food today, in Britain. we also have the greatest economic equality in a very long time.