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Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
#31
RE: Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
(January 1, 2023 at 6:05 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: Fighting climate change is seriously as simple as planting more trees? Okay, here’s a little math problem for you.

In 2018 alone, humanity emitted 37 gigatons of CO2 into the atmosphere. https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressa...63f0b1c6e5
A gigaton is 2 trillion pounds.
A tree captures, on average, 48 pounds of CO2 per year. https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2015/03/...we-breathe

1) How many trees would it take to offset the carbon emissions of humanity for the year of 2018 alone?
2) Do you see why this isn’t a realistic solution, given the answer to A?

It works out to - very roughly - 1.5 trillion trees. This is a figure known to botanists as 'a fuckton of trees'.

Boru
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#32
RE: Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
(January 1, 2023 at 6:30 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(January 1, 2023 at 6:05 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: Fighting climate change is seriously as simple as planting more trees? Okay, here’s a little math problem for you.

In 2018 alone, humanity emitted 37 gigatons of CO2 into the atmosphere. https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressa...63f0b1c6e5
A gigaton is 2 trillion pounds.
A tree captures, on average, 48 pounds of CO2 per year. https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2015/03/...we-breathe

1) How many trees would it take to offset the carbon emissions of humanity for the year of 2018 alone?
2) Do you see why this isn’t a realistic solution, given the answer to A?

It works out to - very roughly - 1.5 trillion trees. This is a figure known to botanists as 'a fuckton of trees'.

Boru

It’s also, according to yet another estimate, 50% of all the trees on the planet. Just to offset all of humanity’s carbon emissions for a single year, it’d require a massive increase in the number of trees. And this problem has been going on for over a fucking century. Those tree nurseries would have to be working overtime.
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#33
RE: Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
(December 31, 2022 at 11:32 pm)Helios Wrote: Climate change will not end well for humanity or the planet in general 

Why? Average Earth's temperature was 6 degrees Celsius higher for the last 500 million years. Mammals and other species thrived during one of the hottest periods in Earth's history. Some scientists argue that global warming will be net beneficial to the Global North.


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#34
RE: Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
(January 14, 2023 at 4:50 am)Dmitry1983 Wrote:
(December 31, 2022 at 11:32 pm)Helios Wrote: Climate change will not end well for humanity or the planet in general 

Why? Average Earth's temperature was 6 degrees Celsius higher for the last 500 million years. Mammals and other species thrived during one of the hottest periods in Earth's history. Some scientists argue that global warming will be net beneficial to the Global North.



By the time climate change-related damage reaches the point depicted in the video, Russia will consist of about one million half-starved peasants living in mud huts heated by dung (if they can find any dung), ruled by a handful of competing warlords whose idea of technological advancement is a metal fishhook.

Boru
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#35
RE: Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
What about Canada, Greenland, Scandinavia, Antarctica?
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#36
RE: Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
(January 14, 2023 at 5:26 am)Dmitry1983 Wrote: What about Canada, Greenland, Scandinavia, Antarctica?

You really expect any of those to become superpowers?

Boru
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#37
RE: Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
Pointing out earth had varied temperatures in the past due to gradual natural shifts does not mean rapid artificial shifts are good for us. Not to mention it's not simply the fact the planet is warming it's all the knock-on effects of this that are bad for everything mammal or not. So these "scientists " are either naive or talking out of their asses.

Russia will suffer a number of climate-related issues so that video is hilariously narrow in it's viewpoint 

https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/Aether/...%20cities.

https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/11/0...n-kalmykia

http://government.ru/en/news/43759/
"Change was inevitable"


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#38
RE: Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
(January 14, 2023 at 5:59 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(January 14, 2023 at 5:26 am)Dmitry1983 Wrote: What about Canada, Greenland, Scandinavia, Antarctica?

You really expect any of those to become superpowers?

Boru
People like this seem to think the only effect of climate change is things getting warmer while ignoring what that means for the rest of the system.
"Change was inevitable"


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 “No matter what men think, abortion is a fact of life. Women have always had them; they always have and they always will. Are they going to have good ones or bad ones? Will the good ones be reserved for the rich, while the poor women go to quacks?”
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#39
RE: Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
(January 14, 2023 at 5:59 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(January 14, 2023 at 5:26 am)Dmitry1983 Wrote: What about Canada, Greenland, Scandinavia, Antarctica?

You really expect any of those to become superpowers?

Boru
They will be good places to live
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#40
RE: Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
Quote:They will be good places to live
No, they will not be .... Dodgy
"Change was inevitable"


Nemo sicut deus debet esse!

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 “No matter what men think, abortion is a fact of life. Women have always had them; they always have and they always will. Are they going to have good ones or bad ones? Will the good ones be reserved for the rich, while the poor women go to quacks?”
–SHIRLEY CHISHOLM


      
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