Ryan Barrett
Information Is BeautifulIf you're aged 30 or more, then 50% of all human fossil fuel emissions happened during your lifetime
craignicol@infobeautiful @bobthomson70 it's the 30% for the 20 year olds that's concerning me. Humans don't understand exponential growth.
Amin Girasol@infobeautiful tell that to Our World In Data.
Ideology@infobeautiful jesus christ 
garrytansucks.55 on Signal
Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ@infobeautiful What I find funny about the chart is that there was a news story in the 1950s that detailed how we were going to run out of fossil fuels by the end of the century...and yet, almost half have been used since then.
Cegorach@Ralph058 @infobeautiful yes, we found new sources
we looked into deeper layers, we used different methods to get oil/coal/gas and we imported from new parts of the world
but that can't grow forever
much less exponential
The timeline might have been off, but the fact remains
only now we used up so much stuff that we got different, new problems
"no new fuel" no longer is the worst thing (but will happen still) - but the results of using so much fuel is gotten way worse than that
@infobeautiful @korenchkin exponential growth is "fun"
Tofu Musubi@infobeautiful
Wow. This explains why weather, plant life, insect life, and more is so very different from when I was a child.
Wow. This explains why weather, plant life, insect life, and more is so very different from when I was a child.
enoch_exe_inc@Hawaii @infobeautiful Remember when it used to snow a whole foot overnight in Toronto? I have vivid memories of that as a very young boy, which became increasingly sparse, further between, and practically nonexistent by the time I became an adult…almost ten years ago.
It still snows, but it doesn’t seem to stick around for very long. We don’t even bother to shovel the driveway—it’ll be gone by the weekend. I haven’t touched my sled since 2009.
IthanulYep.
I can't remember where I saw it, but someone mention about has anyone notice about the insects.
Which made me go...wait.
I haven't seen big proper insect swarms I use to see as child happen much anymore.
Which is wild when considering, I live in a hot sub-tropical climate as is. But, I'm like....where are the dang mayflies now? Or, the big lovebug swarms?
Tobias McFadden@infobeautiful Hat das jemensch auf deutsch für meine Eltern? ;)
Sir Toootenstein@infobeautiful nobody likes to hear that.
Nelson@infobeautiful The hippies were right! Never trust anyone over the age of 30, because they're responsible for the majority of historical greenhouse gas emissions ;-)
Maurice Lanselle@infobeautiful I think this presentation of data is not helpful.
Darwin Woodka
Jesse@infobeautiful It's good to point out that it's 50 yrs (75% of emissions) since we had definitive scientific proof that human CO2 emissions cause a green house effect that creates global heating.
It's more than 90% of emissions since somebody pointed out that human CO2 emissions might cause a greenhouse effect.
It's more than 90% of emissions since somebody pointed out that human CO2 emissions might cause a greenhouse effect.
maegulTwo thoughts:
* Adjusting this for adulthood makes sense. IE, "since you were 20 years old". Basically shift the whole graph downward and cut 20 year olds off the graph.
* The inflection point of that curve is relatively clear (around when it hits 80%) ... and annoyingly that's boomers ... which isn't about apportioning blame but just highlighting how that generation really was a social & political phenomenon
Georg Arne Spenden@maegul @infobeautiful It makes me ashamed. Some 60% happened in my adult life, and I haven't been doing shit about it until the last few years.
No one has.
It's this generation's holocaust. "How did you let it happen" ... "dunno, everyone was, it was easy to just live"
We were convinced that turning lights off and pretending to care about carbon footprints was *the only thing to do*. That being too political or hanging with hippies was uncool or impolite.
Then, when it all became obvious we all caught the "there's nothing I can do now" form of "denialism".
We'll be laughed at by future generations.
Strypey@infobeautiful
> If you're aged 30 or more, then 50% of all human fossil fuel emissions happened during your lifetime
Intriguing. Just out of curiosity, do you know of a similar graph on the proportion of emissions during our adulthood (say from the age of 18)?
Ged|NetConsidering everyone used to warm up their engines for 10 mins, I am not surprised.
Revving engines filled the morning air.
France Pasquale 📷 🦻 
@infobeautiful @emeline, un graphique intéressant sur les énergies fossiles.
mfriedenhagen@infobeautiful while the display of the data is beautiful the data itself looks horrible
jacquelines 🌟@infobeautiful sorry sorry im trying to stop it sorry
Loukas (They/Them) 🏳️⚧️@infobeautiful information is traumatising
Kora@infobeautiful found this elsewhere and thought it fits well as a narrative and call to action https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7226482129444995072/
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albi von skládka 🇨🇿@infobeautiful thanks, my depression really needed that
Fred Johansen@infobeautiful Good job, me.
The Turtle@infobeautiful if you're 65, two-thirds of humans happened during your lifetime.
Stop having babies. Now.
Actually, stop having babies years ago.
Philippe Marcenac@infobeautiful
Je ne suis pas né au début de l'ère industrielle et pourtant la majeure partie du CO2 de l'époque est toujours là
@tykayn
Je ne suis pas né au début de l'ère industrielle et pourtant la majeure partie du CO2 de l'époque est toujours là
@tykayn
oldherl@infobeautiful Sorry I misread the title as "human fossil" fuel, as that the fuel was made of human bodies... 🔥
Dresden S has moved@infobeautiful this is actually horrifying
bob.php 
@infobeautiful @theshaunwalker if the age axis is inverted it can be stylized as smoke stack smoke.
kampfschwaetzer@infobeautiful And by the way: The first report of the Club of Rome was published in 1972. So we know what we are doing for at least more then 50 years.
Lloxie 
@infobeautiful Fuuuuuck, this is wild @.@