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?

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    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.

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    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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      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.

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        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.

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    If people who hunt with population control as the excuse were logically consistent then they’d say yes

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    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?

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    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.

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    oh 2/3s will die just not by humanity hands directly. heat, extreme weather, more pandemics. it’s all coming earth will get it’s payment in blood.