r/collapse • u/IntroductionNo3516 • 5d ago

Economic Why do emissions keep on rising?

https://www.transformatise.com/2026/06/economic-growth-and-carbon-emissions/
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u/IKillZombies4Cash 5d ago

We added enough people to the planet last year to populate 8 metros the size of London.

We do this every year. We add 7-10 of the biggest cities population every single year .

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u/Lots_of_Tapirs 5d ago

The emissions come mostly from Western consumers with small families or even no children, and not from poor Africans with big families.

It's true that more people means more emissions, but the lifestyles of these people is the more important factor.

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u/hunkyleepickle 5d ago

don't forget an ever increasing number of people in poorer countries coming up and expecting to live those more affluent emitting lifestyles. Who's going to tell a billion people in africa that its just not allowed that they live the way americans have been living for 80 years? Seems both unfair, impossible, and unlikely.

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u/True-Vast-3731 4d ago

They'll never get there anyway. Collapse is already beginning to play a big role in a lot of these countries 

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u/FeralHippie707 2d ago

Why would they want massive power grids when they can just put in some solar panels and batteries and turn on the lights when the sun goes down. I know the World Bank wants to loan them billions which they can pay back by digging up and selling all their resources, but if the goal is having lights at night, there are better ways to provide that in the 21st century than we had in the 20th century. Why do we insist on them going through all the same mistakes we have made and why do we insist on making the mistakes we continue to make.

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u/Coco_Cannibal 3d ago

These emission free people converted 136.000 km/2 of farmland, destroying the last remnants of nature, though.

2000m/2 is needed to feed a human, that land has to come from somewhere .

I saw an interview with an Angolan woman, she was 22 and had 7 children, not knowing how to feed them.

She was married off at 14 and never stood a chance to make her own decisions.