We Just Breached the 410 PPM Threshold for CO2

Re:We Just Breached the 410 PPM Threshold for CO2 by akvadrako on Sunday April 23, 2017 @07:23AM (#14177682)

Over the next few decades, over 4 billion people will certainly die, regardless of global warming. Whatever kills them, death isn't usually pleasant.

I don't see why death from climate change is worse than death by any other means.

Maybe you mean that we should minimise the number of deaths, which implies our ideal global population isn't much less than the current level. That's debatable.

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Re:We Just Breached the 410 PPM Threshold for CO2 by anigbrowl on Monday April 24, 2017 @05:40PM (#14188586)

I made it clear that I was considering a catastrophic population decline. Nitpicky arguments about death never being pleasant seem like an elaborate way to avoid addressing that and I don't know why you would bother.

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Re:We Just Breached the 410 PPM Threshold for CO2 by akvadrako on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @10:21AM (#14203166)

That was not my point; I thought it was your point. You said people will die and that would be awful, not the decline in population.

I highly doubt the population will decline by so much, but there is nothing inherently bad about it. Even one billion people is plenty for a healthy global society.

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