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by wing-_-nuts 1972 days ago
>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.

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