Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll.

[Brian37]

As long as the schmucks of the world keep breeding and making billions of little consumers - we' re screwed as a race.

The race would be far better off numbering in the low millions....

Reducing  the population will not fix climate change

Not sure what you mean by that. It can be argued, that no matter what life does, even if humans didn't exist, the planet will always do what it does. I'd only argue that because we exist, we are pouring gas on the fire speeding up what the planet would do if we never evolved.

[onlinebiker]

Anyone who says reducing the population will not lower man' s effect on the environment is a drooling shithead who hasn' t the slightest idea of what they are talking about.....


It' s simple math.

Say you had one tenth of the population - EVEN IF they doubled their consumption of hydrocarbons - you would have one fifth the hydrocarbons being consumed.

Same with farming - which is heavilly blamed for climate change.... You would only raise 20 percent of what is being raised now. We could eliminate factory farming.

What is the twisted, fuckwad logic that says otherwise?

You gotta be a Catholic to believe that kind of bullshit.


(Breed more believers!)

[The Architect Of Fate]

Lol, the Neo Malthusian bullshit your spewing has been discredited over and over again  

Population control WILL NOT solve climate change!!!

https://futurism.com/the-byte/population...ate-change

https://www.srhr-ask-us.org/publication/...-warming/#

https://www.kpbs.org/news/2019/sep/16/au...n-control/

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29788754

https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2018/11/14...snt-answer


https://www.tni.org/my/node/4570

https://mercatornet.com/what-about-clima...nge/24655/

But all these academics and journalists are just "shitheads" who don't know what they're talking about .....Right?

[Rev. Rye]

I think Biker's claim hinges on the assumption that, with less people, we'd have less need to do all the shit that leads to all these greenhouse gases. But, frankly, as much as I hate being around people and sometimes find myself thinking that maybe Thanos had the right idea, at best, it's just part of the problem. The countries that emit the most greenhouse gases are also the ones with the lowest birth rates. And we hoard resources like there's no tomorrow, and, in fairness, there may as well not be much of a tomorrow for the human race. And, frankly, the assumption that the big forces who are actually doing most of the greenhouse gas emissions will, say, half their carbon footprint once the population is halved, I don't really see that happening.

[ignoramus]

Let's remember that we used to inhabit Mars before we "hopped".

Cockroaches always find a way to survive!

[Pat Mustard]

Yes, we're only beginning to do the stuff we should have been doing in the early 90s.

[Ranjr]

We've made quite a mess of things, but humans will survive.  Should civilization collapse, the atmospheric CO2 will decrease a good bit after 50 years, then linger a century or more.  The climate will stabilize.  A new beast will slouch toward Bethlehem.

[AniKoferBo]

Also, when we moved here, humidity was a rare, rare thing and we were happy about that after sweltering in SC for years.  Now, it's common that the air is so damp it's like a sauna.  

ANYTHING would be better than the dripping wet humidity of the gulf coast... great, friendly people, great business, great schools, but that 99% summer humidity will whack you to a parade rest...

[The Grand Nudger]

I moved north to escape it, seems like it followed me more and more.

I voted no, we’re not doomed. The majority of earth has always been hostile to us, we merely conceal that fact with tools and cooperation. As such, no matter what issue we face now or in present, the answer is more of us with more ideas and more tools. That’s also the only thing that could really doom us. If we lose too many, if we refuse to engage with ideas, if we refuse to use the tools at our disposal. Then, even if it were a breezy day in paradise, we would be doomed.

[Pat Mustard]

Yes. It will happen. I don't think the human population of Earth will change its ways. As for "in the next 100 years," idk. Not that savvy on climate models. My judgment is based sheerly on an assessment of human nature and what things capitalism tends to prioritize.

Invest in non-coastal real estate, y'all. Especially in the mountains.

Better yet, invest in a good double barrel and two twelve guage shells.