The rest of the world will rejoice and join together in actually fixing climate change
That won’t work, mainly because that walled-off Trumpland would deliberately ‘roll coal’ enough to offset the rest of the world’s improvements. They’d eventually be forced to invade and put it down like a rabid dog.
The population drop due to all the diseases running rampant while they refuse vaccination, masks or any sort of social distancing kill off enough that their overall energy use is still quite low.
Especially when you add in the increased maternal deaths that would be unlikely to compensate for the high mortality rate. Population growth in recent decades has been huge despite a major drop in the average number of children born to each mother.
That won’t work, mainly because that walled-off Trumpland would deliberately ‘roll coal’ enough to offset the rest of the world’s improvements. They’d eventually be forced to invade and put it down like a rabid dog.
The population drop due to all the diseases running rampant while they refuse vaccination, masks or any sort of social distancing kill off enough that their overall energy use is still quite low.
They’ll be compensating for that with all the forced birth, though.
Especially when you add in the increased maternal deaths that would be unlikely to compensate for the high mortality rate. Population growth in recent decades has been huge despite a major drop in the average number of children born to each mother.