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PoindexterOglethorpe

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1. In thirty years large parts of the planet will be uninhabitable.

Reply to The Fifty Stateman (Original post)

Thu Oct 14, 2021, 09:56 AM

Oct 2021

Perhaps the best thing we can hope for is that some truly terrible disease erupts killing three-quarters of all humans. Even then, the population would still be at nearly two billion, which is probably still above the carrying capacity of the planet.

There are too many people here by several orders of magnitude, that's the simple truth. Humans are far too good at reproducing, not so good at living within our means.

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Carbon emissions will drop just 40% by 2050 with countries' current pledges [View all] The Fifty Stateman Oct 2021 OP

In thirty years large parts of the planet will be uninhabitable. PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2021 #1

I wish just the countries not taken it seriously would be affected, jimfields33 Oct 2021 #2

People have been talking joyfully about low carbon energy 30 years out for more than half a century. NNadir Oct 2021 #3