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aboriginal Europeans' TFR is about 1.2 and falling. even if did remain that high (it won't!), 750M will become <100M in 100 years and <10M in 200 years. Europea
by vlyan 1mo ago
aboriginal Europeans' TFR is about 1.2 and falling. even if did remain that high (it won't!), 750M will become <100M in 100 years and <10M in 200 years. Europeans have already adopted the most effective strategy imaginable to fight klimat change -- extinction.
so I don't think it's fair to scold Hans from Hamburg over his carbon footprint. Abdul from Mogadishu may emit less CO2 over his own lifetime, but each of his 5 children will have 5 children, and no one will scold him for it.
- tempfile 1mo agoSo Hans can do whatever he likes because you want to blame Abdul for the cumulative sum of all his descendants?
- vlyan 1mo agoyes. does that not make sense to you? unless Hans is a young global leader who flies his private jet to Davos every year to urge proles to eat ze bugs, his carbon footprint will be less than that of someone with children. (I would use something other than "Abdul from Mogadishu" as the counterpart, but the only remotely European people not going extinct are some subgroups of Israeli Jews.)
- esseph 1mo ago> but the only remotely European people not going extinct are some subgroups of Israeli Jews What?
- vlyan 1mo agonot a single European country has the TFR anywhere near 2. with the median age now reaching >=40, the TFR of 1.0-1.5 means rapid and irreversible decline. is this news to you?
- esseph 1mo agoNot at all, I just don't fucking care at all. It's irrelevant. Race is not something I care about, and cultures come and go. The groups we were 10,000 years ago are not the groups we have now, which are not what the groups will be 10,000 years from now. Big whoop.
- AlexeyBelov 1mo ago70 day old account. You're replying to a 70 day old account. Just don't.
- vlyan 1mo agoit's a throwaway. it's 70 day old because two or three controversial comments in a row get accounts without 100000000 karma ratelimited to one comment per infinity. when it happens I make another. my squeaky clean main account is older than yours.
- AlexeyBelov 1mo agoIt's a throwaway troll account. I know of three other accounts of the same user. The issue is not a couple of slightly downvoted comments, it's persistent trolling. The ability to create new accounts so easily and be a nuisance is my least favourite "feature" of HN.
- vlyan 1mo agowould you prefer to log in with Gosuslugi upon approval from Roskomnadzor? psycho stalkers who will go through your whole comment history to construct an ad hominem are half the reason why people use throwaways, btw ;)
- AlexeyBelov 28d agoGo use Habr or whatever.