If you're aged 30 or more, then 50% of all human fossil fuel emissions happened during your lifetime

[xs4me2@mastodon.social]

@infobeautiful

Such madness…

[victimofsimony@infosec.exchange]

@infobeautiful

Now break it down by who owns the emitter.

[disorderlyf@todon.eu]

@infobeautiful Seems like the rate increased dramatically 35-40 years ago, and had a smaller increase 10 years ago. I wonder what happened during those years.

[mirano@mastodon.social]

@infobeautiful Context is also beautiful:

Population: 1996 = 5.842 billion, 2026 = 8.301 billion.

Average life expectancy: 1995 = 64.9 years, 2024 = 73.3 years.

Extreme poverty: 1996 = 37.9%, 2024 = 10.3%

[segfaultcult@cyberplace.social]

@infobeautiful and 10% of that is me using claude code last week to build a website for my cat.

[greetingsout@universeodon.com]

@infobeautiful I am well aware, and watched most of it happen. Many of us tried to stop it as soon as it was obvious, which was probably in the 60s. Rachel Carson‘s “silent spring” was an early alert.

[riaresists@mastodon.social]

@infobeautiful And I don’t really remember a time I wasn’t fighting against it.

[ozzelot@mstdn.social]

@infobeautiful *gulp*

[emmaf_77@piaille.fr]

@infobeautiful #degrowth

[cresssalad@mastodon.social]

@infobeautiful And we see younger people are in an era of higher emissions, but clearly they are not directly responsible for that. It will be their parents and possibly grandparents who are mining bitcoin and investing in AI