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We Just Lived Through Two of the Hottest Days Ever. Does Anyone Care?
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Well, technically we'll reduce out emissions. Just, it'll likely be after a mass extinction event.
"The planet is fine. The people are fucked."
Will the rotting corpses cause a spike in carbon emissions or would it immediately drop?
Rotting corpses can't order scop from Temu that ships on old bunker fuel ships, oddly in private jets that account for hundreds of cars worth of emissions per flight.
I think humans are mostly carbon-neutral, but decomposition might release gasses that are worse than just CO2. Burning them directly would probably be better.