Plantagenet wrote:dohboi wrote:"The richest 10% have, on average, carbon footprints 11 times that of the poorest 3.5 billion people on the planet"
Another reason that population is not the main problem.
You're assuming that the poorest 3.5 billion people will be content to continue to be the poorest 3.5 billion people and keep the same impoverished lifestyle.
That isn' true.
What poor people in India and other third world poverty holes want more than anything else is your lifestyle. Just as China modernized and their carbon output exploded, now India, Indonesia, VietNam, Tanzania, Nigeria, Egypt, etc etc. also want to modernize and live like Americans.
What kind of car do you want when you grow up?
dohboi wrote:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/global-warming/Worlds-richest-10-produce-50-of-CO2-Report/articleshow/50020466.cms
World's richest 10% produce 50% of CO2the poorest half-most threatened by droughts and super storms linked to climate change–contribute a mere 10%
We have met the enemy...
So rabid consumerism was much more controllable than overpopulation
Newfie wrote:According to this site https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/get-inv ... children=2
If your after tax income (adjusted for the US) was $1,000 for a family of 2 adults and 2 children ...
you are in the richest 91.5% of the worlds population
and
If you donated 10% of your income you would still be in the richest 93.6% of the worlds population. (Don't ask, I don't know. But it makes you wonder about their math skills.)
dohboi wrote:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/global-warming/Worlds-richest-10-produce-50-of-CO2-Report/articleshow/50020466.cms
World's richest 10% produce 50% of CO2the poorest half-most threatened by droughts and super storms linked to climate change–contribute a mere 10%
We have met the enemy...
Newfie wrote:What is humanities purpose?
AgentR11 wrote:Newfie wrote:What is humanities purpose?
From a Gaea centrist view.... we do have a purpose, and it is very simple. To dig up and return all the carbon to the atmosphere, and then die horribly.
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