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I guess we all agree that continuing as is is clearly unsustainable. The one and only alternative to full human extinction is radically scaling down humanity, primarily quantitatively. We would still need some amount of people, ideally geographically distributed to stay resilient against god knows what else will come in the future. I am not well versed at all in the multiple disciplines one needs to talk about this i…
Sounds like overkill, literally. I mean, if every ton of CO2 emitted had to be offset by certificates for 1.1 tons of CO2, that were truly removed from the atmosphere, the climate problem would be solved over time and we could switch to 1:1 once we got the atmosphere back to pre-industrial levels. While this would surely reduce quality of living, I would be surprised if this meant that only 500k people per continent…
Lol sound like impossible for many practical and social raisons. Thinking about how temper the overkill proposition is more realistic than keep on lying ourself to the impossible one.