Kill 1/3 of the worlds population? a recent study showed that personal CO2 emissions (from breathing) contributes 3 times as much per capita as industrial emissions
I think my math may be off but I figure, If we kill or let 2.5 billion people die, we could undo alot of global warming.


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6 months ago

Ok, I don%26#039;t care if im part of the 1/3, when I say we, I mean humans.

6 months ago

so sad about the babys

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It%26#039;s always interesting to see the instinctive urge to control other people%26#039;s lives that some have. The fact is, in Europe the population is declining already, it%26#039;s close to ZPG here in the US as well. The problem is with the poor of any race and I don%26#039;t think they%26#039;d appreciate you wanting to take away their reproductive rights, Scottsdale.

The claim that a temp increase of 3 degrees will end human life is curious. Much less adaptable forms of life have survived greater temperature variation than that and they didn%26#039;t have the benefit of technology. Do you realize that just prior to the start of this %26quot;problem%26quot; the CO2 level was close to the level at which plants suffocate and die? Wouldn%26#039;t it be wonderful if you succeed so well at controlling CO2 that it declines to the point that crops won%26#039;t grow?

A simpler solution would be to start a campaign to do two things. First, build a series of nationwide canals in the US so that surplus rain in one area is easily moved to another. Very expensive but less costly than continual FEMA aid or an interstate highway system. Second, use that water to plant a million or so acres of trees. Then regularly harvest those trees and use them for building materials. The carbon they absorb while growing remains out of circulation (mostly) until they%26#039;re burned. Replant each tree that%26#039;s harvested. They%26#039;re useful, they suck up CO2, they%26#039;re pretty. No downside that I can see as long as you keep the undergrowth trimmed back and remove dead trees so they don%26#039;t all burn up in a forest fire.

Are there really too many people on Earth? I remember reading about the %26quot;Population Bomb%26quot; claiming that we%26#039;d have mass starvation if we didn%26#039;t end population growth, the average US lifespan would be cut to 42 by 1980 and the total population would be only 22 million by 1999. He was wrong because he didn%26#039;t take into account two things. One, agricultural innovation. Two, rising CO2 has led to faster plant growth worldwide.

Instead of killing people, let%26#039;s kill all the cows that emit so much methane and have a big cookout! We%26#039;d just have to make sure the evil cattle barons don%26#039;t raise any new ones and we can all switch to tofu. At that point, put me on the short list for the 1/3 to be killed off, anything is better than a life of eating tofu.

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Thank you you really put this into perspective for me, I hate tofu too.

Other Answers (13)

• Hey retard what study said that? You have no source because its not true? You sound like a liberal nut bag
• thats not only very hard to do, but it is very controversial and stupid.....
• Lets do it... we%26#039;ll start with your family...
• Maybe we could do a little softer solution.
  Just put the masses on seditives and sit them on the couch in front of the TV. We could outlaw exercise and excitment of any kind.
  
  Or we could just forget all the media induced BS and live our lives, without Fear, without Hate, without Control.
• EVERYONE TALKIN ABOUT THE GLOBAL WARMING AND HOW WE CAN STOP IT BY MAKING NEW CARS AND MAKE HI TECH INDUSTRIALS PLANTS THAT WONT MAKE SAME POLOTUIN AS NOW
  BUT WHAT ABOUT THE WARS.........
  LOOK AT THE TV AND LOOK AT ALL THESE EXPLOSIONS AND DINAMITE AND TANKS BURNING GAS TO TROLL AND ALL THE OIL WELLS BURNING IN KUWAIT ON 90%26#039;S OR RECENTLY IN IRAQ
  WHAT U ALL THINK OF IT
  NOTHING GOOD IS COMING OUTTA THESE WARS
  EVEN THE AMERICAN CETIZEN IS SUFFERING FROM THE GAS PRICES AND THE ONLY WINNER IS THE GAS COMPANIES NOT THE GULF OPEC COUNTRIES AS U THINK
  ALL WHAT ICAN SAY THAT GLOBAL WARMING IS CAUSED BY THE WARS
  WAKE UP
  
  CHEERS
• What makes you think you wouldnt be part of the %26quot;1/3%26quot;
  Always %26quot;we%26quot; gonna kill somebody else not us.
• The liberals have already instituted that strategy by upholding a mother%26#039;s right to terminate countless Numbers of unwanted children.
• I think that the premise of your question is wrong.
  
  However, the wording is interesting. The %26quot;industrial emissions%26quot; may or may not include the CO2 from energy production, household heating and lighting, transportation, rain forest burning, and other sources.
  
  The important issue concerns the total CO2 emissions from all sources as compared with the total CO2 uptake by all sinks (and the consquences to these sinks such as the ocean).