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7. Industrialization is fine

Reply to HoneyBadger (Reply #3)

Thu Dec 29, 2016, 12:52 PM

Dec 2016

The current human population growth is NOT fine. If the world only had 500 million people it could easily support a modern first world lifestyle for all of them without significant problems. Climate change wouldn't be nearly as big of an issue, and scarcity of resources would be unheard of.

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Call it "pollution" vs climate change [View all] Equinox Moon Dec 2016 OP

It's problematic el_bryanto Dec 2016 #1

My point is, "pollution" needs to be 'part' of the meme-topic. Equinox Moon Dec 2016 #2

Climate change is not pollution HoneyBadger Dec 2016 #3

Yet, pollution is related to climate change Equinox Moon Dec 2016 #5

Don't throw the baby out with the bath water. Blue Shoes Dec 2016 #6

Industrialization is fine Calculating Dec 2016 #7

I would simply make it truer by saying catastrophic climate change. libtodeath Dec 2016 #4

People generally think they know what pollution is muriel_volestrangler Dec 2016 #8