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Considering humans excrete CO2, Methane, and nitrates 24/7 for approximately 80 years each, how would one go about calculating the impact of 5+ billion people, plus all the resources necessary to maintain them throughout their lives ?
I'm not really expecting an answer here, but perhaps one could consider that the rich minority, who may only drive for one hour per day, does so in order to get to work, and among other things, doing so helps to maintain many of those other less polluting people.
Clearly, those 5-billion poor people can't be sustaining themselves by a hunting & gathering lifestyle.
On the flip side, imagine how much revenue could be generated by imposing a breathing/farting tax on those 5-billion poor people.
I understand the concept of behavior modification via the proper incentive, but I maintain that punishing success only guarantees failure and/or eventual economic collapse.
I think it would be nice to see an incentive program that doesn't punish success or feed the government. None are ever offered. We are only given false choices of the "give us money or the planet dies" type.
I'm just say'n.
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