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A wise person would turn up the consumption and pull all stops in order to clock the quality of life aNd experiences that one imagined to accumulate in 70 years in 30 instead .

Even if the world was about to be destroyed by fossil fuel consumption (which isn’t the case) you’d need 8bn people to get onboard with the plan, which is impossible especially given that 4bn live on a day-day basis



Your manifestation of nihilism and shamelessness looks touching, but for the purposes of collecting answers to my question, I took it away from your answer and this is what I got. In the bottom line, we have the problem of informing the remaining half of the population, minus the nihilists. Have you forgotten your own TIL from yesterday? Four billion below the poverty line - why did you mention them in the fossil fuel burning thread, where do they get the money for burning the fuels?


> > why did you mention them in the fossil fuel burning thread, where do they get the money for burning the fuels?

China, India and Pakistan don't have to deal with all the EPA regulations so the unit of greenhouse gases per unit of fossil fuel consumed is much higher than the US or Europe.

And now Nigeria is joining the party of greenhouse gases, their unit of gases per unit of fossil fuels burned is off the chart even for India and China standards.

But Gretha knows fuck all about living in a Lagos slum, so she thinks she can will stuff into existence like she willed her trip across the atlantic in a 20m sailboat which alone granted her a CO2 footprint that not even a year of economy class plane travel across the world would match.




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