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15. The exponential rise of methane release will see to that.
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 04:47 PM
Sep 2018

There are DUers who still do not understand urgent and dire consequences of the earth's exploding population and the inevitable destructive consumption of that population.

The global population has grown from 1 billion in 1800 to 7.616 billion in 2018. Predicted to be 11 billion by 2088.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_growth
Humans will be gone before then.

Everything else is trivial in comparison to saving this planet's environment. Yet wingers, even when acknowledging the problem, have this "what the hell, it's already gone, so let's get rich" attitude!
Fuck.



I have one offspring, a 31yo son, so all of this is devastatingly heartbreaking to me. He will see the end.


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