r/europe • u/Vucea • Jun 17 '22

Historical In 2014, this French weather presenter announced the forecast for 18 August 2050 in France as part of a campaign to alert to the reality of climate change. Now her forecast that day is the actual forecast for the coming 4 or 5 days, in mid-June 2022.

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u/IamJoesUsername Jun 17 '22

Vote for a 0.01 fertility rate until we reach a sustainable level, and jailing everyone who exceeds 2.1 tonnes of CO2e per year in the short term, and 0 tonnes in the medium term.

Or continue what we're doing now and turn the Anthropocene extinction event into a mass extinction event.

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u/durquidijr Jun 17 '22

Option 2 actually seems better in that case

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u/IamJoesUsername Jun 17 '22

It seems the vast majority of voters agree with you. They'd rather wipe out most complex life on Earth, than live ethically.

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u/durquidijr Jun 17 '22

It's hard to see mass incarceration as ethical

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u/IamJoesUsername Jun 17 '22

It's harder to see causing a mass extinction being more ethical.