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Re:France experiencing worst drought on record by sokoloff on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @09:09PM (#32406773)
All beings on Earth will go extinct at some point; it’s a matter of when. Extending that significantly has merit, but must be traded off against many factors, including convenience and quality of the lives lived until the point of extinction.

Perhaps we should ration the population to 2 Billion or so, to give everyone who lives a better life, mean, median, and mode, than we can at 8 Billion. Perhaps 8B is OK, but only if those 8B each make deeper sacrifices than the 2B would have to…

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Re:France experiencing worst drought on record by 29athrowaway on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @10:15PM (#32407183)
Starting by eliminating all expectation that it is normal for a human being to travel frequently on planes.
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Re:France experiencing worst drought on record by sokoloff on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @03:38AM (#32408846)
Is that the optimal first step in terms of return for the environment over delta-convenience, delta-fun, and attention budget?

I’d expect that other improvements sort far, far higher on the return over expense scale, but are not as symbolic.

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Re:France experiencing worst drought on record by 29athrowaway on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @06:55AM (#32410033)
Convenience? fun? Dude... there's a literal extinction going out outside.
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