[hh3k0]

There's already a more practical way of accomplishing what you're suggesting:

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/09/harvard-group...

The problem is that it a) is tackling a symptom rather than the underlying problem,

b) may encourage "business as usual",

and c) may come with undesirable side effects.

[wing-_-nuts]

>may come with undesirable side effects.

Such as messing with rainfall patterns in the tropics. I imagine people would be a good deal less forgiving of dying because of famine if it was caused by an informed choice by the first world, instead of an unintended consequence of industrialization.

[hh3k0]

I mean, it's not like sacrificing nature and the climate wasn't an informed choice by the First World.