Maybe we should just start nuking the most densely packed cities/countries. Sorry NYC, Tokyo, and basically all of India.
But would this not solve the problem?
oh 2/3s will die just not by humanity hands directly. heat, extreme weather, more pandemics. it’s all coming earth will get it’s payment in blood.
Ok Hitler…
The thing is that that’s an extremely fucked up and evil thing to do
I’ll say. Even Thanos only wanted to kill HALF the population.
Well, I was going to say just kill ALL the humans, but then I thought people would get mad that I’m killing all the humans. So I said 2/3rds.
Need to up those numbers to 111% of the Humans
Killing all humans would solve the problem though.
Well I mean… initially you’d have a whole bunch of dead humans emitting carbon dioxide and methane as they decompose.
I almost hesitate to bring up the other problems with your plan since, obviously the total monstrosity of it. But that’s anyway pretty well covered so I’ll just throw in that blowing enough nukes to kill that many people would create considerably worse environmental disaster
But if enough were detonated, would it create a nuclear winter thereby offsetting the warming trend?
The Mojave wasteland makes me wish for one…
Logically, killing humans would be way down on the list of potential Global Warming solutions. We would have to exhaust all other methods first. Just banning private vehicles would save a few billion from extermination. Green energy tech and Nuclear power would save more. Vegetarian diets even more. Reducing organic waste, involuntary birth control, carbon sequestration - it’s a long list of better incremental solutions. They may be more costly than extermination, but they’re infinitely more ethical. It’s only logical if that’s the sole solution that ensures some of the population survives. We’re a long way from that condition.
“… involuntary birth control …”
We are the only two contributors here rising this topic. How do you see it ?
Please also read my root comment.I see it as one possibility of many. Measures currently employed are limited because most countries are democratic, where politicians must appease the people to stay in office. China could implement one-child because they are a de-facto dictatorship.
Yes, thanks. Let’s hope many countries evolve (or citizens mature) so they can apply necessary policies without degrading into dictatorships.
I know the name of the community is “no stupid questions”, but you managed to power through somehow anyway
An excellent trolling if ever I’ve seen one
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i have observed that many people interpret the community title as a dare
If I’m really honest I often feel that way about the questions here. I suspect that most of us are here just to gawk at how truly stupid some of us are.
Nuking wouldn’t really be the way to go, it’ll destroy the world in other ways.
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If the goal is reducing emissions, taking out the highest carbon emitters per capita would make the most sense. That’s the developed countries, with the US leading the pack.
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Covid tried. Eventually the earth will win.
It is man made and the answer is to make better use of our resources to limit pollution where a green alternative is not possible.
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I mean, nuking? That ain’t exactly going to fix anything.
Like, the whole idea is bad, but dropping nukes is it’s own environmental disaster as bad or worse than global warming.
Even using conventional munitions is going to cause fires and literal megatons of debris to be released into the atmosphere and water. This ain’t going to fix anything.
It also assumes that population control is the fix in the first place, and it isn’t. The population levels would only shift the speed of change, not the fact of it. To stop or reverse the changes, you have to change the underlying cause of the change, which is pretty much down to industrial processes across multiple areas, including agriculture.
Yeah, you kill off enough people, industrial efforts might cease, but it’s more likely that the remaining people are going to have to rely on the most effective methods to stay alive and functional, rather than the methods that are environmentally best.
OP convenient that your living location isn’t on the list. Maybe start looking inward? If you remove 2/3 of your mass you’d be doing your part, right?
