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Birth rates are dropping faster than predicted, which means both fewer grandchildren to suffer and fewer grandchildren to produce carbon. A lot of environmental
by noelwelsh 2y ago
Birth rates are dropping faster than predicted, which means both fewer grandchildren to suffer and fewer grandchildren to produce carbon. A lot of environmental issues just go away with fewer people around. We'll have to adapt the current ponzi scheme of government pensions but that seems a small price to pay.
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- baq 2y agoThis just means less people to handle the consequences of the last two decades of reckless exponential growth. It'll matter for their grandchildren, maybe.
- noelwelsh 2y agoNot quite. A big issue with global warming is we have been taking carbon out of the ground and putting it into the atmosphere. We have the technology to stop doing that, but not the technology to capture carbon already in the atmosphere. Fewer people means more vegetation that will capture some of that carbon.
- baq 2y agoWhile I agree this works (we have very good evidence in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azolla_event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azolla_event), the timescales for that to matter are two orders of magnitude too long assuming we figure out the scale and genetics.