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But there is now 7 billion people. And no, it's not just "People will have to move": +6 degrees in one century is a temperature change we haven't seen since humans appeared on Earth: https://www.xkcd.com/1732

So we need to come back to emissions of 1990 (when they balanced natural absorption), emit a even less for a while, but with 7 billion people, everyone has to emit much less than in 1990.

To preempt any question... I still eat meat and I don't see how I could do without.



Then stop talking about crimes about humanity. If you consider yourself a criminal, go and jail yourself.

Personally I don't think "going back" is viable, we should probably be trying to engineer ourself a new climate. Better than we had pre-industrialization.

Our planet was pretty messed up even before humans came. It was going to snowball.




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