Quote Originally Posted by BankItDrew
To the death of billions of people due to global warming I say good riddance. It's part of the solution to a bigger problem: Over-population.
I watched a video the other day of a chicken factory that claimed to go through mid six figures of chickens everyday. EVERYDAY! And I think this was all just for American egg consumption, and we're not even close to being as densely populated as many other places (even though per capita consumption is way higher than anywhere else)

If the world population was never above 500 million or something I think that we would possibly never be talking about global warming. We're looking at about 12-14 billion or something in 2050.

I'm not the most clued in on over-population, but I think that it mostly boils down to oil culture, and if we were on 100% renewables, then the Earth could support a gigantic middle class. Even though currently about 15-20% (stat pulled from ass) of population is middle class or above

While global warming will exterminate billions in the future, it won't be the ones who deserve it. It will be the poor, starving, and oppressed. My hope, in part, is that it's so bad that the fuckers responsible for it also become exterminated. This would very likely happen if we stayed on business as usual long enough (which isn't that long, actually). Climate panels have actually been beginning to come out saying that our current course is even worse than worst case scenario projections, and that course heads straight into areas speculated to breed mass extinction events like oceanic/atmospheric anoxia, or simply just too hot for mammals to survive.

What it boils down to is that this is actually an experiment. We don't know how far it can go, we have no data that is exactly like our current situation, and we are unable to rule out total apocalypse. The story the geologic history of Earth is wrought with very dramatic climate change, mostly caused by some triggered feedback loop, but we cannot rule out that this method could push things further than ever before, and we could even turn out to be like Venus (which word around science is that Venus' climate was once much more mild like Earth)

There is a part of me that hopes AGW kills us all. I loathe the fact that billions of humans have lived/live in misery, and a small number of the lucky ones (us and our neighbors) live in relatively happy lives, yet never stop complaining, and do our best to further oppress the suffering. I would love for everybody to be able to live in happiness, but that is simply a pipe dream

Honestly, I do not believe that the suffering of just one person is worth the happiness of a trillion people. If a magic genie sky daddy came down from heaven, told me that if I wasn't honest he'd kill me, and asked me what was better: a world where .00001% of the population lived in misery, or no world at all, I would choose no world at all.

Got pick up that wpp to 200 imo