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

Bar chart shows the % of global fossil fuel emissions occurring in a lifetime with bars of different length for ages from 5 to 100 years. More emissions happen over a longer lifetime. During the life of an 85 year old, 90% of all  emissions happened. For someone age of 30 the rate is already 50%
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relache ⚗️

@infobeautiful I am in the about 75% group far enough I’d say it’s closer to 77% for me.

Silo

@infobeautiful
Our politicians are bought.

No wonder the cops act like their private armies.

bit101

@infobeautiful Interesting graph, but it's not really shocking. We started using fossil fuel on a large scale roughly 100 years ago when the world population was around 2 billion. Now there are more than 8 billion of using it and we each use more than someone did in the 1920s.

Art-X

@infobeautiful
Corporate consumer culture is a globe-spanning mental and moral disorder hurtling us over a cliff.

Misha

@infobeautiful

I wrote a blog post about this graph a few months ago!

Its a great graph, but it (therefore) deserves an update!

(Maybe also interesting for @BartVerheggen)
mishathings.org/posts/2024-08-

Misha

@infobeautiful @BartVerheggen

"By now, for people who are currently 30, the percentage will be higher, simply because the annual emissions have gone up since the graph was made."

SearingTruth

@infobeautiful

"Evil needs you to doubt yourselves, and humanity.

Or it cannot win.

And will instead definitely fail."
SearingTruth

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