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Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in living memory

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Re: Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in living memory

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Post by TeMPOraL »

RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote: post #2

> Many of our COPD patients who need regular follow-up haven’t shown up because their symptoms have eased. Some have called to say they don’t require oxygen therapy anymore.” If this is at all similar to the experience in the US, while some people may have seen their symptoms improve, a lot of people are avoiding doctors and hospitals out of fear of getting COVID, and are skipping out on routine checkups and care.

COPD + COVID sounds like a death sentence, so if I suffered from it, I too would avoid hospitals (and anyone else) like the literal plague.

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Post by gonzo41 »

mmaunder wrote: post #9

This is why we need less humans on this planet. No one says that, because having as many kids as you like seems to be considered a basic human right. But imagine Earth with a stable 10% of our current population. Clean, abundant, and without the catastrophic extinction event already underway.

So you're taking steps and not having children then?

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Post by dleslie »

nodesocket wrote: post #3

Perhaps I am being very skeptical, but I am failing to understand how three months of lockdown all the sudden eliminates decades of pollution. Something does not add uphere.

A huge amount of low-level airborne particulate comes from the wear between tires and the road and vehicular exhaust, and compounded with exhaust fumes from industry this creates much of the low-level airborne particulate.

The high-atmosphere pollution remains, as does the soil and water and biomass pollution, but the low-level airborne particulate is heavily influenced by automobile traffic and industrial activity.

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Post by frequentnapper »

gonzo41 wrote: post #12
mmaunder wrote: post #9

This is why we need less humans on this planet. No one says that, because having as many kids as you like seems to be considered a basic human right. But imagine Earth with a stable 10% of our current population. Clean, abundant, and without the catastrophic extinction event already underway.

So you're taking steps and not having children then?

Ad hominem - tool of the mentally weak.

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Post by mmaunder »

gonzo41 wrote: post #12
mmaunder wrote: post #9

This is why we need less humans on this planet. No one says that, because having as many kids as you like seems to be considered a basic human right. But imagine Earth with a stable 10% of our current population. Clean, abundant, and without the catastrophic extinction event already underway.

So you're taking steps and not having children then?

Correct. I’m 46 years old, healthy, fertile, heterosexual and I don’t have any kids. How about you?

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Post by nitrogen »

gonzo41 wrote: post #12
mmaunder wrote: post #9

This is why we need less humans on this planet. No one says that, because having as many kids as you like seems to be considered a basic human right. But imagine Earth with a stable 10% of our current population. Clean, abundant, and without the catastrophic extinction event already underway.

So you're taking steps and not having children then?

A case can also be made that those who want the least children for sustainability reasons should try to have more children who grow up to make a compounding difference in the future.

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Post by seibelj »

mmaunder wrote: post #16
gonzo41 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you're taking steps and not having children then?

Correct. I’m 46 years old, healthy, fertile, heterosexual and I don’t have any kids. How about you?

I'm doing what my ancestors did, from 3.75 billion years ago until now - reproduce!

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Post by mmaunder »

mmaunder wrote: post #16
gonzo41 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you're taking steps and not having children then?

Correct. I’m 46 years old, healthy, fertile, heterosexual and I don’t have any kids. How about you?

And there it is. A sudden torrent of downvotes. Dropped from 4 to zero in seconds. Like is said, having kids is considered a basic human right. We’re so arrogant, yet so basic as a species.
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