Would a pandemic fight Climate Change?

Question

Would a pandemic that kills off millions of people like the 1918 Spanish flu, would our emissions drop drastically as a result, or would the impact on the developed world, which is the bigger polluter, be too little to make a difference?

In other words, would poor carless peasants in far off lands die at a greater rate than people in polluting nations?

Answer 1

Developed nations seem ripe for a pandemic. Our cultures require that we go to work with a lot of other people, go to school en masse, and shop in cities with a lot of other people. We travel often. A pandemic could spread through a developed nation very quickly. At the same time, we are physically as vulnerable as anyone to new viruses. Uh-oh.

I noticed that the contributor above my answer uses the same packaged rant to various questions about this issue. Does that save energy in some way?

Answer 2

Global warming is a joke. All of the planets have global warming right now.

Most global warming theorists have never heard of the term "solar variability". Solar variability caused the earth to leave the ice age in less than 20 years, and it caused the earth to have a little ice age several hundred years ago.

NASA: "Rapid changes between ice ages and warm periods (called interglacials) are recorded in the Greenland ice sheet. Occurring over ONE OR TWO DECADES, the warming of the Earth at the end of the last ice age happened much faster than the rate of change of the Earth’s orbit."
NASA link: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/Paleoclimatology_Evidence/Images/gisp2_temperature.gif

NASA data has proved that the "Little Ice Age" was caused by less light reaching the earth ("solar variability", which means changes in the sun).

NASA's data about the little ice age. http://tinyurl.com/227h3p or ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/da... (This data can be copied and pasted it into Excel to chart it.)

Other facts:
1) 6,000 years ago, the earth was hotter than it is today. 6,000 years is less than a second when compared with the age of the earth.
2) Temperatures dropped in the 1950's and 1990's when CO2 levels were increasing.
3) 140,000 years ago the earth had record CO2 levels and there were no gasoline powered cars.
4) 20,000 years ago, Canada was one big ice cube and half of the U.S. was covered with Ice. The grand canyon was formed by melting ice ages over 20 million years.
5) The temperature of the Earth has only increased by 0.65 of a degree in the last 110 years. There were faster increases in temperatures around 10,000 years ago and there were no gasoline powered cars during that time
6) NASA scientific data has shown most of the changes of temperature are due to changes in the Sun. Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto all have global warming right now
7) Also, strong hurricanes are normal. Hundreds of years ago, they used to sink ships off of the coast of Florida.
8) THIS GLACIER DIDN'T EXIST 7,000 YEARS ago. And that was after the Ice Age.
"A few thousand years ago, there were no glaciers here at all"..."Back then we would have been standing in the middle of a forest"
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,357366,00.html
9) Russian Expert Predicts Global Cooling from 2012
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/02/06/globalcold.shtml

Answer 3

If it was somewhere dense, the population was large, and the people that perished consumed alot(cars, electricity, etc), then yes.