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Re:Insect collapse by dmichulke on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @10:46AM (#18911944)
> Fighting climate change involves lowering CO2 rates

Exactly, and not having kids doesn't lower CO2 rates per capita, it just reduces absolute CO2 emissions.

Hence the equivalence that the article's statistics implicitly suggest killing humans reduces CO2 emissions and my claim that this type of info doesn't help at all.

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Re:Insect collapse by toasterlovin on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @12:35PM (#18913008)
It reduces absolute CO2 emissions if everyone has less children. Biology tells us that life does not stop reproducing short of extinction level events, however.
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