alt Hacker News> Having a child is on of the most carbon intensive actions any given person can make.
What about continuing to live at all? That is a decision people make every moment of the day and are not being held accountable for it at all.
If there were zero people tomorrow there would be still be an ongoing problem for the climate from the changes wreaked already.
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thejazzman • last Monday at 9:11 PM
You're correct that 24h is not enough time, but wrong to suggest that the world would remain perfectly static instead of changing.
There would be dramatic reforestation, algae growth, etc.
I indelicately started a contentious topic that didn't have to exist. If I were given a fresh chance, I'd have just said that carbon emissions and the changes they are causing to the planet are a bigger problem than any single economic class or nation.
That might have caused some controversy, too, but is closer to what I meant. Your point is well taken, but maybe if I posted differently the ensuing discussion would have been less acrimonious.