U.S. Exits Paris Climate Accord

Re:U.S. Exits Paris Climate Accord by toomuchtodo on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @08:00AM (#24988582)

You need less people, fundamentally. The total fertility rate is declining across the world luckily (except a handful of countries and Africa) [1], but everyone around now is going to have a rough ride until equilibrium is reached (sometime after 2100). Can’t grow your way out of resource exhaustion (renewables excepted).

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate#country-by-country...

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Re:U.S. Exits Paris Climate Accord by pfdietz on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @08:30AM (#24988803)

It's declining in Africa also.

https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/demographics-of-a...

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Re:U.S. Exits Paris Climate Accord by toomuchtodo on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @08:34AM (#24988845)

Thanks for pointing that out. Our World In Data’s data is out of date [1], I keep poking them to update their fertility rate data but get no response (maybe busy with COVID data sets, I have no context into why).

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate

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Re:U.S. Exits Paris Climate Accord by makomk on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @09:45AM (#24989470)

I suspect that Covid is going to run a coach and horses right through that improvement. The best ways of getting population growth down in places like Africa are education and a strong, stable economy - and it's just trashed both.

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Re:U.S. Exits Paris Climate Accord by pfdietz on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @05:33PM (#24993748)

Actually, the best way is empowering women.

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