[Borodog]

Dude. So many fallacies. The level of emissions going down does not cause economic collapse. Please read carefully. Carbon monoxide is not carbon dioxide. People are talking about drastically cutting carbon dioxide emissions. The technologies to do this economically do not exist. So the only way to do it is to coercively cut productivity. Period.

Furthermore, what caused the drop in carbon monoxide emissions? How do you know how many more or less people would or would not have died in those 30 years under different circumstances? It's counterfactual, and I seriously doubt you've done the research to be able to say anything meaningful about it. I daresay that if capitalism weren't shackled and the division of labor interrupted for most of the last century, world standard of living would be far higher right now, and hundreds of millions of people would not have died.