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Re:Massachusetts Sues Exxon over Climate Change, Accusing th... by dmos62 on Sunday October 27, 2019 @08:50AM (#21369390)
The "but we won't" insights are spiteful and not that insightful. Here's another one: we could go back to pre-industrial lifestyles.
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Re:Massachusetts Sues Exxon over Climate Change, Accusing th... by ageofwant on Sunday October 27, 2019 @09:38AM (#21369598)
The natural nitrogen cycle can optimistically support 4B people. That means 3.5B people need to die for that to even become a workable solution. But but magic tech will save us all ! We have magic tech today, we don't use it.
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Re:Massachusetts Sues Exxon over Climate Change, Accusing th... by dmos62 on Sunday October 27, 2019 @11:12AM (#21370201)
> 3.5B need to die.

Well more actually, unless noone is born in that time, if you want to be glum about it.

I hadn't even heard about the nitrogen cycle. Thanks!

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Re:Massachusetts Sues Exxon over Climate Change, Accusing th... by metiscus on Sunday October 27, 2019 @09:29AM (#21369553)
Not without a large depopulation event of some kind.
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