If 50% of people die, are we going to flood due to masses of water being released back into the environment?

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[–]ruqqer 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Oh, please. Google the amount of water on Earth: 321M cubic miles (or 321e6 where "e6" means 6 zeroes at the end). Convert it to cubic meters: 1.3e18, so 1.3e21 kilograms of water. Take 10 billion (1e10) people at 100kg, you get 1e12 kilograms, or 1e9 times less than the water amount. Or, in the other words, taking the entire mass of the humanity and adding it to the oceans would increase their volume by a whole 0.0000001%. Nope, won't be any noticeable effect at all.