QuantumSpecter@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoMicrosoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AIwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square79fedilinkarrow-up1793arrow-down113
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minus-squareWldFyre@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 months agoI don’t think local economies from millennia ago are similar enough to compare to modern global economies with our current population boom. I think we could for sure have a different approach if our population was stable or decreasing.
minus-squareSwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·7 months ago worked fine for millennia without inflationary money That means until the early 1900s or 1970s when inflation went into overdrive. our current population boom Huh what?
minus-squareWldFyre@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 months ago That means until the early 1900s or 1970s What a wide window, but I’d like to point out that the baby boomers generation happened right around this time. Huh what? Fertility rates and total population numbers are not the same thing.
I don’t think local economies from millennia ago are similar enough to compare to modern global economies with our current population boom. I think we could for sure have a different approach if our population was stable or decreasing.
That means until the early 1900s or 1970s when inflation went into overdrive.
Huh what?
What a wide window, but I’d like to point out that the baby boomers generation happened right around this time.
Fertility rates and total population numbers are not the same thing.