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(6,907 posts)if the ice melted, would the earth still be habitable by humans? I mean would overall temperature be survivable? Would it mess with the magnetic field or anything like that?
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)which is probably why the right wing doesn't give a damn about global warming.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)d_r
(6,907 posts)All of florida, south georgia, south alabama, south louisiana big chunks of texas, carolinas, arkansas
roamer65
(36,745 posts)How do we achieve it?
Each person on this planet has a carbon footprint. We cannot sustain further population growth.
Revanchist
(1,375 posts)and over half the world is reproducing below the replacement rate. We are slowly thinning the herd naturally.
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/pdf/fertility/world-fertility-patterns-2015.pdf
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Remove all tax incentives and subsidies for having more than one child.
I hope the UN is right and the trend accelerates...greatly.
cstanleytech
(26,299 posts)Moostache
(9,895 posts)Then the poor uneducated whites, then the rest of the whites until only the 0.01% of the richest are left in bunkers in New Zealand.
They do not care because they really believe and internalize the myth of the "self-made man"...THEY built EVERYTHING by themselves and they believe a world with no consumers is no big deal...they got theirs already so fuck the planet...
They should all be hanged for crimes against humanity.
trueblue2007
(17,228 posts)cstanleytech
(26,299 posts)roamer65
(36,745 posts)cstanleytech
(26,299 posts)roamer65
(36,745 posts)Old gas stations, oil refineries, nuclear power stations, etc, etc...all underwater.
Glad I won't be around to see it.
cstanleytech
(26,299 posts)as well as the potential problems it could cause to plate tectonics in some areas for which I was laughed at and dismissed for even mentioning the "absurd" idea.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Not when the large amounts of displaced people start moving inland.
greytdemocrat
(3,299 posts)That isn't going to happen and it just
makes the Left or whoever is pushing
this look nuts.
ret5hd
(20,501 posts)Your data and logic has completely won me over!!!