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To: elpolvo who wrote (326001)4/27/2020 12:23:14 AM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 362296
 
Sigh; my keyboard just ate my post. Let's see if I can remember the gist of it.

"i guess i'm one of the small minority that sees many very acceptable
ways to reduce the population with some form of birth control"

Birth control is a good way to reduce the population, but population reduction is way too slow to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Atmospheric CO2 is going up just over 6 gigatons/year, or a little more than 2 gt/ppm CO2. The US produces a bit more than 6gt/year, close enuf for Sioux Nation work.

Let's kick up our death rate, from 2.8M/year to 1M/day. We'll be gone in a year. If the rest of the world keeps their FF consumption at current levels, CO2 might level off, altho temps will still go up a few tenths of a degree over the next 30-40 years.

OTH, if the rest of the world says, "Look; 250M vehicles and lots of oil; let's loot the place", our vanishing from the scene won't mean a thing.