Perry Rivera
Information Is BeautifulIf you are aged 30 or more, then 50% of all human fossil fuel emissions happened during your lifetime. (by Neil Kaye)
Geogoeroe@infobeautiful Wow, that's really bad. And well chosen colours for the visualization btw.
JoelBarr@infobeautiful yep, I've told my students and my own kids they can blame my whole generation. We suck.
RealGravitas -Citizen Saboteur@infobeautiful And my generation was initially tasked with solving this problem. So what did we do? Less than nothing. #boomers
Ambrosia@infobeautiful its not my fault
The Turtle@infobeautiful Ok, I admit it: I farted a lot in 1972.
@infobeautiful ...at least people over 60 had nothing to do first-hand with disposable diapers or drink boxes.
@infobeautiful people over 60 also remember collecting glass bottles for the deposit and our cars were made of metal, not plastic.
cmeier@the_turtle @infobeautiful Our cars also got about 10 miles per gallon.
Sijmen Mulder 🌍@infobeautiful and those emissions happened while we damn well knew what they would do
Darwin Woodka
Davip Prestnod
Jay@infobeautiful New headline: Majority of Millennials Alive During Majority of Emissions: Coincidence?
SmashedRatOnPress@infobeautiful Thanks for posting this lovely graph. It makes clear that humans are absolutely insane. Especially when one also knows that scientists have been warning us for well over 50 years.
OldTurk🗽Focus: #FreePeltier@infobeautiful eeeeeeeeh
Greeeeeeat
Greeeeeeat
Dave Bartkowiak@infobeautiful and now what. We survive inside the belly of the beast. One day the beast will just shit us out and flush.
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...
@DeborahForPlus @infobeautiful
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
@DeborahForPlus @infobeautiful
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??
@Frances_Larina @infobeautiful
Going to listen to something online about book "the parrot and the igloo" ... See if I learn anything new.
Nicole ParsonsThe 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
Aethelstan@Npars01 @infobeautiful good thing they have this cash so they can cleanup the oil and gas rigs, mines, plastics, and other toxic waste they have been spewing— wait, they gave all those profits away to the already wealthy? Oh.
cowvin@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!
tomiant@infobeautiful Thank GOD. Finally some good news! Only a few % to go and at least that fucking bullshit will be over. It's gonna be less great tackling the consequences of doing that but at least we then will all come to agree that incinerating *all of it* was a mistake.
Right?
Guys?
tsld@infobeautiful not beautiful, sad
Jesse@infobeautiful The idea that 75% of all CO2 emissions happened after we had definitive proof and scientific consensus of the problem really is horrifying.
xs4me2If anyone still doubting that we cannot go on like this… well, here it is…
The majority of the world was industrialized thanks to Richard Nixon and his ilk
Michaela Molthagen
Anton Gerasimov@infobeautiful So basically emissions are growing exponentially?
@infobeautiful this is terrifying.
Zen Zero ☯️ ◯@infobeautiful @SRDas This cannot be right. Coal has been mined for thousands of years.
Wintermute 
Christiaan Jacobs@meneer If you are aged 50 or more, then 75% of all human fossil fuel emissions happened during your lifetime. (by Neil Kaye)
@cejjacobs saw it... I'm much closer to 100...
Alfred@infobeautiful
Fossil fuels replaced a part of wood burning. And wood is burned by humans for a long time.
Also the number of humans living should be taken in account. Also human become older (in 1751 the age was between 30 and 40).
It's true human behavior to carbon emission is not a positive thing, but putting it like this in a diagram is partly misleading.
Fossil fuels replaced a part of wood burning. And wood is burned by humans for a long time.
Also the number of humans living should be taken in account. Also human become older (in 1751 the age was between 30 and 40).
It's true human behavior to carbon emission is not a positive thing, but putting it like this in a diagram is partly misleading.
spmatich vk3spm 
@infobeautiful a neighbour asked me why I put solar on the roof and how much it cost. I replied and said I expect to break even in about 15y. He was a friendly old guy. Though he said it’s not worth for me I don’t expect to be around that long. To which I replied, you and I have had a lifetime of fossil fuel use. Don’t think about it just in terms of your own financial cost. Think about it as a way to reduce the impact of your remaining years, and offset some of the impact of your earlier years. I don’t think he understood. But this graph shows the idea nicely.
Rajnhildo Ursidino 
@infobeautiful Information is horrific, not beautiful
Louis [OLD ACCOUNT]@infobeautiful what's interesting to notice too, is that the emission speed is becoming higher and higher. 10% were emitted over the last 5 years only.