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16. Best quote of the article...

Reply to bronxiteforever (Original post)

Fri Aug 16, 2019, 04:06 AM

Aug 2019

"The obvious solution is to have fewer children. In 2017, an important research study, published in the journal Environmental Letters, found that giving birth to one less child is 60 times as effective as all the other actions a person can take to improve the environment combined, such as switching to an electric car, to solar energy or to a vegan diet."

Bless my childless friends! Btw, most of my friends are childless or only have one.

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'The Sea Will Get as Hot as a Jacuzzi': What Life in Israel Will Be Like in 2100 [View all] bronxiteforever Aug 2019 OP

Why I'm glad I have only one child PoindexterOglethorpe Aug 2019 #1

Why I am glad I chose not to have kids BigmanPigman Aug 2019 #3

I also chose not to have children. femmedem Aug 2019 #5

Is it bad I'm kind of rooting for extinction? BannonsLiver Aug 2019 #2

I wish that if that happens the animals and plants would survive BigmanPigman Aug 2019 #4

It's not exactly humans, it's a particular human culture that is destroying the planet. greyl Aug 2019 #9

I am not rooting for extinction. PoindexterOglethorpe Aug 2019 #13

K&R smirkymonkey Aug 2019 #6

+1 bronxiteforever Aug 2019 #8

+10 Duppers Aug 2019 #11

The Middle East problem will finally be solved DavidDvorkin Aug 2019 #7

One sentence stuck with me, from a conference of experts in climate science I attended. littlemissmartypants Aug 2019 #10

+1. Drown, starve, or get roasted. dalton99a Aug 2019 #12

Sadly, that about says it all. bronxiteforever Aug 2019 #17

35,000+ people died in 2003 heatwave that scorched Europe Duppers Aug 2019 #14

Life by 2100? Well... Duppers Aug 2019 #15

+1. The clinical term that always strikes me is "nonlinear" bronxiteforever Aug 2019 #18

Best quote of the article... Duppers Aug 2019 #16

KR appalachiablue Aug 2019 #19

A/C will have to run 24 hr a day to prevent heat deaths NickB79 Aug 2019 #20

The increase in A/C use will blow our carbon budget out of the water NickB79 Aug 2019 #21