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Information Is BeautifulIf you're aged 30 or more, then 50% of all human fossil fuel emissions happened during your lifetime
Ramnarayan KalyanaramanWhoah
Hippie@infobeautiful
I am 25, this is so fucking dark
Also, hate to break it to us, but apparently its 2026
2030 was this far away dystopian year, now it is like... Two good nights of sleep away?
I am 25, this is so fucking dark
Also, hate to break it to us, but apparently its 2026
2030 was this far away dystopian year, now it is like... Two good nights of sleep away?
ZenHeathen 🇨🇦@Hippie I'm gonna get two good nights of sleep in the next four years? Awesome--upgrade. @infobeautiful
EndlessMason@infobeautiful
You can't prove it was me.
You can't prove it was me.
Claire McNab@EndlessMason We are long past the days when lack of evidence was grounds for acquittal.
xs4me2Such madness…
Pseudonymous 
Now break it down by who owns the emitter. 
disorderlyf@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.
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKMassive rises in private car ownership, firstly with the average working class man, then his wife and young adult offspring.
In UK this happened around late 1960s to late 1970s for the first (also with a rise in married women getting their own cars around 1970s/1980s) and 1990s/00s for the second.
I collect old motoring books (both those aimed at the average driver and training textbooks for mechanics) from 20th/early 21st century and can track these changes from the design/typography and writing styles over the years..
Christian Hachmann@vfrmedia @disorderlyf @infobeautiful
That was 50-60 years ago.
My bet (without having checked the numbers) for the rate increase since the 80ies is industrialization in most oft the world (China, India, Indonesia...) catching up to Europe and North America.
That was 50-60 years ago.
My bet (without having checked the numbers) for the rate increase since the 80ies is industrialization in most oft the world (China, India, Indonesia...) catching up to Europe and North America.
@ChristianHachm @disorderlyf @infobeautiful
The rise in second/third car ownership in Western nations since the 1980s would also have heavily encouraged this (by increasing general consumption and demand worldwide, especially as more manufacturing work got offshored to the Global South countries)
@vfrmedia @ChristianHachm @infobeautiful I think you're both right. I also think I should've included a /s
Mirano4566@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%
segfault cult@infobeautiful and 10% of that is me using claude code last week to build a website for my cat.
Greetings From Out Of the Blue@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@infobeautiful And I don’t really remember a time I wasn’t fighting against it.
Ozzelot 
@infobeautiful *gulp*
Dan HattonTo put it another way: the entire worldwide fossil-fuel energy infrastructure was built in about 50 years, which really highlights how shocking it is that we're being so much slower about building a decarbonized energy infrastructure to replace it.
Breizh@only_ohm @infobeautiful France showed that we could replace it at the same pace. But we’re giving more and more power to people that only does things for themself. When it’s for yourself, plans on 40, 60 or 80 years aren’t interesting, you’ll never gain anything from it in your life…
Dams, electricity grids, nuclear plants, trains and roads, telecom infrastructures were made for the future generations.
Now the current people in power can profit from all of these without doing much, and doing anything for the next generation would reduce their wealth or power. Why bother?
Lúmëcolca@infobeautiful
Nearly 60% of fossil fuel emissions have happened AFTER the airing of Captain Planet and the Planeteers.
Nearly 60% of fossil fuel emissions have happened AFTER the airing of Captain Planet and the Planeteers.
Álvaro G. Molinero 👉 @KimeraGupta
cyplo@infobeautiful cool and normal :/
Poor Richard@infobeautiful interesting if true.
DG1JAN 🇪🇺@infobeautiful Thanks for the Visualization. Mind-blowing how we managed to Fuck Up the Planet within the Lifespan of a Human. Also quite impressive to see how the gradient changes ~50y ago and but also the last ~20y 😢
Duncan Blair@infobeautiful a visualisation like this really needs to be dated. In the case, the original is from 2019: https://xcancel.com/neilrkaye/status/1129347990777413632
The Turtle@infobeautiful i have been farting for well over 60 years.
Sorry.
@infobeautiful it is worth pointing out that 75% of existing humans were born during my lifetime. Perhaps people should stop shitting out human babies nobody needs (and that are actively destructive).
ravelin
Bruno Nicoletti@infobeautiful @ChrisMayLA6 Sorry, I really am.
Dustin Metzgar@infobeautiful hard to believe there were two world wars before that 80 year mark
candle of lokening 🕯️@infobeautiful Thats impressive😱😭
Parttimesailor@infobeautiful this is both useless and meaningless
Drew 🇵🇭 ♾️@infobeautiful How is this information of any use to anyone whatsoever?
JacobRPG❌👑@infobeautiful this doesn’t seem ideal
Roodbaard@infobeautiful I don’t find this information beautiful, more sad.
Jane@infobeautiful This feels right. My lifetime has been one of wildly increasing population density and technology dependence.
Nicolas Delsaux@infobeautiful It won't please @nitot either (because being 50+, I very don't like to understand I've lived when fossil fuel emissions happened the most)
Antonin Rousselaccélération