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preferredfault 18 points ago +18 / -0

And if they end up killing millions of people with it, they'll just say "Well, that's good for the environment, so bad is good!".

...Even though the principle cause of overpopulation on the planet is third world countries. India, Africa, China.....that's where the primary loads of overpopulation are. If you combine the US and Europe, that's just under 1 billion people.

If you combine India and China, that's 3 billion people alone. If you look at Africa alone, that's more people than the US and EU combined.

And what do you think pollution will look like when they all get electricity? They could use 1/3rd of the electricity per person than we do, and still pollute as much as we do. And we don't even use that much damn electricity! Most people use 5-10w LED bulbs and at best, 50-100w bulbs. A 1000w microwave runs for like 5 minutes or less a day. That's not even a full Kwh.

PC's are soo efficient, they use around 100-200w while running. That's like running 4 light bulbs in a house in the 1990's. Throw in some gaming, and you're using maybe double that. Just the more efficient bulbs we have today, is like if the internet age never even happened. It's no different than if a family in the 80's is using several light bulbs around the house.

That's the thing, we've MORE than surpassed the requirements of the Paris Accords in a sense. We haven't reduced our total emissions (because you know, populations grow and immigration makes populations grow too), but we have made things over 5-10 times more energy efficient.

And we're just a drop in the bucket compared to the tidal wave that's coming when the third world gets all the basic amenities we have. It will be consumption on scales ten times that of ours....more even, considering to have the technology, they also need to build their countries up from the dirt.....something we did more than a century ago.

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gloriouschairmanpao 25 points ago +25 / -0

There is no climate crisis. I mean, just look at the track history of their predictions. They've been saying doomsday is 20 years away since 1970.

Go rewatch An Inconvenient Truth. Al Gore won a Nobel Prize for that. That movie said Miami would be underwater by 2020. Is it?

There's enough natural gas sitting under the shale rock in the middle of the United States to keep the planet running for thousands of years. And that's just what we've found. Oil exploration is not a booming industry anymore -- once we found rich deposits, we pretty much stopped looking.

Even if we somehow did run out of fossil fuel, thorium reactors work beautifully. There's so much thorium in the earth's crust, we will simply never run out. There's enough thorium in the crust to power the world for millions of years. Forever.

The entire so-called "environmental" movement is just Marxist propaganda. It's not real. You will live the rest of your life without seeing any impact from climate change. It's not coming.

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preferredfault 8 points ago +8 / -0

True, but the point is, the US and Europe are the last places one should be calling for population control or blaming for climate change. Just 6 billion people breathing, eating, pissing, and shitting, cause more pollution and environmental destruction than Americans.

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gloriouschairmanpao 1 point ago +1 / -0

Well, they are. Bill Gates told you in his TED talk. "If we do a really good job with vaccines, we can reduce world population by 10-15%". Those were his exact words.

That's called genocide. That's between 900,000,000 and 1,300,000,000 dead people. That's what he just said.

The elites think that we're rats. They want to bring in the exterminator. That's what all of this is about.

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Corianas 4 points ago +4 / -0

considering they constantly claim cold fusion is 10 years away, and likely always will be barring a breakthrough, the fact that doomsday is always double that always struck me as odd.

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gloriouschairmanpao 1 point ago +1 / -0

I think it was probably focus group tested. Actually I'm certain it was. It's a close enough looming threat to be useful to extract concessions, but distant enough that politicians can finish their careers and never be held accountable.

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KINGOJ007 6 points ago +6 / -0

And if they end up killing millions of people with it, they'll just say "Well, that's good for the environment, so bad is good!".

They'll just blame Trump

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RONIN808 5 points ago +5 / -0

"PC's are soo efficient, they use around 100-200w while running"

laughs in 3090