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?
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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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.
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
Nice try, ChatGPT
You could accomplish the same CO2 reduction with fewer deaths if you start with the richest and work your way down.
Good point, you might only need to knock off a very small fraction.
I actually think this could work with one important adjustment.
We should probably start with the people who think that killing off large portions of the population is a great idea and stop once we run out of those people.
“We have Thanos at home”
The Thanos at Home:
Thanos was fucking stupid and no amount of “cold logic” bullshit will justify the fact that unlimited cosmic power could have just doubled the universe.
Or just the fact that achieving space farring tech in effect makes you a post scarcity civilization.
Thanos wasn’t called Mad because his people deemed his ideas too radical, it was because even the premise of his plan was based on him being as dumb as a sack of rocks.
At least in the comics he wanted to impress the personification of Death.
Neither addresses the problem, they just both push it into the future. Half the population/double the resources isn’t even a reasonable amount to give much more time. It’s better for drama though, because disappearing 99% or more of the universe would have really set back the Avengers, if any of them made the cut at all.
That’s exactly my point, he could have made infinite resources, made energy infinite, made resources unnecessary, put the entirety of the universe in Minecraft creative mode, or just make everything into hyper realistic cake. Instead he picks the outcome that hurts the most people.
He picks the outcome that’s the simplest to explain. But you could explain it as a sadistic goal, because look at what second Thanos wanted to do upon learning the universe didn’t appreciate him the first time. Kill it all.
Perhaps you forget how the infinity stones were purported to work…
Well I mean… initially you’d have a whole bunch of dead humans emitting carbon dioxide and methane as they decompose.
Calm down Thanos.
Good answer! Nuking ruins valuable resources, like plants that help reduce greenhouse gases, and animals that help ecosystems thrive.
What we need is some sort of pandemic, that targets the especially stupid (refusing to take protectionary precautions, idiotically increasing their risk of exposure). It’s hard to go without also catching people with comorbidities in the net, but acceptable losses, I guess.
If only there was such a disease…
If you find a GoFundMe for this, let me know.
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?
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…
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.
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.
The problem to this solution is who chooses the humans. The only moral way would be to accept volunteers.
Or to start with the wealthiest people and biggest corporations.
Thats easy. Smokers. They die first. If they are willing to accept that they’re using products that give people cancer, they die first.
I didn’t agree to smoke cigerettes. Or vapes. Or cigars. Yet I have to smell cigerettes everyday, because they don’t care if they give you cancer.
First to die.
That’s easy. People who wish others to die. They die first. If they are willing to accept sacrificing others, they die first.
I didn’t agree to die. Or to be killed. Or murdered. Yet I have to be executed all the same, because they don’t care if you die or not.
First to die.
