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Re:‘Earthworm Dilemma’ Has Climate Scientists Racing to Keep Up by PorterDuff on Monday May 20, 2019 @01:41PM (#19962909)
What happens when you have 15 billion people eating a non-meat diet?
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Re:‘Earthworm Dilemma’ Has Climate Scientists Racing to Keep Up by NeedMoreTea on Monday May 20, 2019 @01:57PM (#19963114)
That's 35 or more years out. First fix the emissions then work on population growth to increase the doubling time. Unless we want to discover the point at which Malthus was right?
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Re:‘Earthworm Dilemma’ Has Climate Scientists Racing to Keep Up by graenxa on Monday May 20, 2019 @01:47PM (#19962992)
They eat vegetables instead. What are you getting at?
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Re:‘Earthworm Dilemma’ Has Climate Scientists Racing to Keep Up by crankylinuxuser on Monday May 20, 2019 @01:54PM (#19963080)
Soon, 7 billion living people.

Humans aren't immune to mass dieoffs. We're animals too.

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Re:‘Earthworm Dilemma’ Has Climate Scientists Racing to Keep Up by mikorym on Monday May 20, 2019 @01:51PM (#19963037)
You get a lot of pesticides.
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