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Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.

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[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Well, technically we'll reduce out emissions. Just, it'll likely be after a mass extinction event.

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[–] ColonelThirtyTwo@pawb.social 22 points 2 years ago

"The planet is fine. The people are fucked."

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[–] vxx@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Will the rotting corpses cause a spike in carbon emissions or would it immediately drop?

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[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Rotting corpses can't order scop from Temu that ships on old bunker fuel ships, oddly in private jets that account for hundreds of cars worth of emissions per flight.

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[–] Contravariant@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I think humans are mostly carbon-neutral, but decomposition might release gasses that are worse than just CO2. Burning them directly would probably be better.

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