If governments had to euthanize its citizens to stop global warming how would they go about deciding...?

Question

...which citizens they would have to euthanize in order to stop global warming?

Answer 1

Al Gore would decide,due to the fact he is God.

Answer 2

Hold a lottery (wasn't there a short story like that...?)

Answer 3

First the deniers, then the skeptics... then they'd have a free run!

Answer 4

Well it has happened before in recent history!

First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out--

    because I was not a communist;

Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out--

    because I was not a socialist;

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out--

    because I was not a trade unionist;

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out--

    because I was not a Jew;

Then they came for me--

    and there was no one left to speak out for me.

Pastor Martin Niemöller

Answer 5

First the elderly, then the homeless, then criminals, then people without jobs, then obese people, then people who do not think as they want you too. Unfortunately after all those people are gone we would still have global warming, the earth is regulated by solar activity, not by people.

Answer 6

I doubt this craziness would ever go that far, so don't worry about it.

Answer 7

Jeez, is this a serious question?

Answer 8

This is a typical AGW denier type of question wherein a totally ludicrous hypothesis is presented alongside a legitimate cause for concern as if the latter will somehow get tainted by the former.

As this is a hypothetical question, we can give a hypothetical answer.

They wouldn't.

Answer 9

Killing everybody would actually speed up global warming. Decaying organic matter (like people) cause methane to be produced. Methane is actually worse for the environment than carbon. Then you have all the resources that would be used in the process.

Answer 10

I would start with everyone that thought we had too many people and needed to resort to euthanasia.  (Can we cut to the chase and call it murder?)