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Re:Minecraft Global Warming by scarejunba on Monday August 20, 2018 @07:23PM (#17805079)
Hey, that's a good idea. You give the students actual wood stoves, and they'll cause global warming, and then they'll die when they're adults. That'll help illustrate the concept in a way that a simulated world can't.
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Re:Minecraft Global Warming by ams6110 on Monday August 20, 2018 @09:34PM (#17806041)
Wood stoves are carbon neutral.
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Re:Minecraft Global Warming by KineticLensman on Monday August 20, 2018 @09:50PM (#17806167)
> Wood stoves are carbon neutral

Not compared with not burning the wood, but using it in something like construction, where the carbon dioxide remains locked up [0]

[0] https://www.chathamhouse.org/expert/comment/wood-not-carbon-...

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Re:Minecraft Global Warming by DonHopkins on Monday August 20, 2018 @10:18PM (#17806326)
Diamond stoves lock up even more carbon, and are much harder to break! (Minecraft joke! ;)
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Re:Minecraft Global Warming by anonlastname on Monday August 20, 2018 @07:54PM (#17805352)
Their lifespans would actually be prolonged by the obesity they don't have. The atmosphere will even out because of the computer power they're not using.
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Re:Minecraft Global Warming by ben_w on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @01:50AM (#17807311)
Their lifespans would probably be shorter because breathing in that much smoke causes cancer at significantly high rates.
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