If 150 000 people died now, would it change this year's carbon footprint? (on a worldwide scale)?

Question

I know this might seem morbid but I'm just wondering, since right now the cyclone in Myanmar + the big chinese earthquake that just happened might cause about 150 000 casualties combined, if not more... I'm just wondering, when this many people die, does it change our impact on the earth? If so, how much?

Answer 1

Well i was thinking about it too. But it won,t change anything. Because recovery would be swift and those industries would definitely had been insured. As for population, there are lot of other countries that have faster rates.

Answer 2

Not only is it morbid (I don't mind a little morbidity) but it's a reflection of the anti-human bias of the Anti-Global-Warming factions.  They don't even know enough about it to be sure what is happening or why; yet the Global Warming activists are desperate to put into effect changes that would cause plenty of deaths in the poorer countries.  How about a little more common sense and a little less hubris?

Answer 3

Probably not by much.  It's such a small fraction of the world's population.

Answer 4

Contrary to the gorebage that you may hear from journalists who rely on activists for information, the contribution of CO2 from humans is .005% of all the CO2 in the atmosphere. By humans, I'm including manmade creations and the simple act of breathing. CO2 makes up .038% of the greenhouse gases (water vapor is 95%) in the atmosphere. The bulk of CO2 in the atmosphere comes from volcanoes (including the underwater variety), and other natural phenomenon. If we stopped the production of CO2 today, it would have absolutely no affect for the simple reason our so-called carbon footprint is like a grain of sand on a very complicated beach.

Only man’s hubris would presume to look at a speck of a speck of our planet’s timeline and believe to have the answers. And it is only our hubris that on a planet that has undergone hundreds of such climate changes over its history, both hot and cold, that we can proudly say we understand the relationship of our planet to the sun, its oceans, its thousands of underwater volcanoes, all its occupants (man and animal), Earth's three distinctive rotations, all of which have been changing our weather since the continents broke apart.

Answer 5

Not when there's 7bn. and rising.

Answer 6

So you think these people's deaths are good? I know you wouldn't be thinking that if it was your whole city and family wiped out. These 150,000 have feelings! Their humans a*****e!