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Re:Canadian permafrost thaws 70 years earlier than predicted by dang on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @12:48AM (#20220871)
Please don't do this here.
Re:Canadian permafrost thaws 70 years earlier than predicted by DuskStar on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @08:06PM (#20219705)
Are you sure that not having children or killing yourself actually reduces long term global carbon emissions? Because the second order effects start to get odd, here.

Imagine that all the people who believed in climate change - globally - committed suicide in some appropriately low-carbon manner. Everyone remaining does not believe in climate change. How long does it take the population to bounce back, and what sort of global warming mitigation do you think happens? Does the world in this thought experiment end up emitting less carbon?

Individual actions might have next to no effect, but institutional actions will. Giving up your opportunity to influence those institutional actions (whether through your own efforts or those of your children) is not beneficial to the environment. Of course, this calculus is different for the average person. But if you're the sort of person who's contemplating suicide to help the environment, you're exactly the sort of person that the world needs to not commit suicide.

Re:Canadian permafrost thaws 70 years earlier than predicted by orhmeh09 on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @10:20PM (#20220300)
Adoption is a thing.
Re:Canadian permafrost thaws 70 years earlier than predicted by DuskStar on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @12:41AM (#20220845)
That is true, but its effectiveness here depends on how much of a person's behavior is nature vs nurture. Political beliefs are influenced by genetics [0], why should environmentalism be an exception?

0: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4038932/

Re:Canadian permafrost thaws 70 years earlier than predicted by pier25 on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @07:33PM (#20219531)
Yeah but my point is that reducing our carbon footprint is not even scratching the surface of the problem.