jessta, 2 months ago

@infobeautiful The idea that 75% of all CO2 emissions happened after we had definitive proof and scientific consensus of the problem really is horrifying.

Npars01, 2 months ago

@infobeautiful

The money that bought climate denialist politicians:

$3 billion in profits per DAY for 50 years.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/21/revealed-oil-sectors-staggering-profits-last-50-years

xs4me2, 2 months ago

@infobeautiful

If anyone still doubting that we cannot go on like this… well, here it is…

cowvin, 2 months ago

@infobeautiful Don't forget that if you're 15, over 30% of all human fossil fuel emissions happened during your lifetime. The acceleration is crazy!

18+ Frances_Larina, 2 months ago

@infobeautiful

That very neatly matches the population growth of humans on Earth, too.

DeborahForPlus, 2 months ago

@Frances_Larina @infobeautiful

The industrialization of the so called third world to be precise.

DeborahForPlus, 2 months ago

@Frances_Larina @infobeautiful

And airplane travel.

My family relocated across the USA in 1960 by plane. It was so new and so rare, we dressed up like for church and we kids got little wing pins.

And appliances and furniture used to be repaired not replaced...

18+ Frances_Larina, 2 months ago

@DeborahForPlus @infobeautiful

But when you compare all of these to things like wealth distribution over the same time period, the underlying cause is clear.

DeborahForPlus, 2 months ago

@Frances_Larina @infobeautiful

It's a whole lot of things.

of people period. And # people that moved from subsistence farming to consumer economies and the impact of that on - manufacturing, home heating/cooling, vastly increased global travel and shipping, etc etc. And those of us already in consumer economies that moved up to throw away products, fast fashion, and jetting across the country/world on whim (limited by $ on hand). And then the super rich flying 2 or 3 towns to avoid traffic

18+ Frances_Larina, 2 months ago

@DeborahForPlus @infobeautiful

I don't disagree with any of that. But what do we do? Is there large scale low hanging fruit?

CWilbur, 2 months ago

@infobeautiful And my generation was initially tasked with solving this problem. So what did we do? Less than nothing. #boomers