Proportionately, this is like 270 UK people being killed in floods and the entire city of Bristol being evacuated.
And the thing is, more than any other nation on Earth, the UK has caused this in Pakistan.
(What I mean by that follows)
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…From about 1750, the UK was scaling up industrialism for 70 years before anyone else came close to following suit. And then exported to every other nation on Earth its core idea of ignoring its main output: pollution.
And from 1856 onwards, the physics of this were known.
But that’s just the physical machinery. The cultural effects are every bit as awful. While the UK was doing all this, it fucked up the Punjab and left it to handle our legacy of division and mendacity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ7S0D1iucY
…The Pakistan situation is of course full of many other state actors, but the UK should own its pivotal role and dial down the utter bullshit it spouts.
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The 1850 visual above is from the excellent 2018 animated visualisation entitled “A brief history of CO2 emissions” by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (run by folks inc @rahmstorf).
Here is its visualisation for our current moment. The columns of waste show clearly where the liability lies
…Swallowing this is uncomfortable. The answers lie somewhere in becoming content with swallowing less
…For those interested, here are some Mastodon accounts I have found for people cited at the end of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research’s video linked to above:
- The Institute itself: @PIK_climate
- Professor for Interaction Design: @boris
- Comms: @mareike
Thank you for your work, folks (and colleagues not here)
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