Information Is BeautifulIf you are aged 30 or more, then 50% of all human fossil fuel emissions happened during your lifetime. (by Neil Kaye)
Frances LarinaThat very neatly matches the population growth of humans on Earth, too.
Deb4+ aka Deborah DT 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@Frances_Larina @infobeautiful
The industrialization of the so called third world to be precise.
@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...
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But when you compare all of these to things like wealth distribution over the same time period, the underlying cause is clear.
@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
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I don't disagree with any of that. But what do we do? Is there large scale low hanging fruit?
@Frances_Larina @infobeautiful
Change human nature? Our acquisitive nature seems to be beneath much of this. (I'm vaguely a Buddhist and they talk about our minds being driven by desire and aversion)
There's an unfortunately large chance people in the future will just end up adapting as best they can. Probably the richest people will be protected relatively and the poorest sacrificed.
Not saying it's right.
I try my little bits to do what seems helpful and minimize what isn't and ?? You??
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Going to listen to something online about book "the parrot and the igloo" ... See if I learn anything new.