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Re:Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in... by tarkin2 on Thursday May 21, 2020 @01:48AM (#23255203)
Humans emit different levels of pollution.

Your rich cheap-airline flying, consumerist car owner will emit far more than many families in the developing world.

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Re:Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in... by onion2k on Thursday May 21, 2020 @02:33AM (#23255456)
To be fair, mmaunder didn't say which 10% he thinks should be allowed to live. He may be in favour of eliminating the rich cheap-airline flying, consumerist car owners first.
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Re:Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in... by tarkin2 on Thursday May 21, 2020 @02:56AM (#23255576)
"Because having as many kids as you like seems to be considered a basic human right" The birth rate is falling in the West. Seems thinly veiled to me!
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Re:Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in... by icebraining on Thursday May 21, 2020 @09:51AM (#23258322)
The birth rate is falling everywhere: https://www.populationconnection.org/wp-content/uploads/2018...
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Re:Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in... by hoseja on Thursday May 21, 2020 @02:51AM (#23255538)
And neither will even approach within several orders of magnitude of Chinese shipping and factories.
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Re:Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in... by tarkin2 on Thursday May 21, 2020 @02:56AM (#23255580)
Who supplies the demand for the shipping and manufacture?
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