If you're aged 30 or more, then 50% of all human fossil fuel emissions happened during your lifetime
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@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)
@infobeautiful This feels right. My lifetime has been one of wildly increasing population density and technology dependence.
@infobeautiful in my industry, we used to use the term "boiling the ocean" to mean something over ambitious and under resourced, and thus impossible. Turns out it was real easy to boil the ocean, all we had to do is burn up all the carbon buried in the earth for a hundred years or so.
@infobeautiful How is this information of any use to anyone whatsoever?
@infobeautiful this is both useless and meaningless
@infobeautiful hard to believe there were two world wars before that 80 year mark
@infobeautiful Thinking about my first car, that got 10 mpg, going downhill
@infobeautiful @ChrisMayLA6 Sorry, I really am.
@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).
@infobeautiful i have been farting for well over 60 years.
Sorry.
@infobeautiful this doesn’t seem ideal
@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 😢
@infobeautiful interesting if true.
@infobeautiful Batman Returns came out 33.5 years ago. The Penguin makes a reference to global warming in it.
To 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.
@infobeautiful And we see younger people are in an era of higher emissions, but clearly they are not directly responsible for that. It will be their parents and possibly grandparents who are mining bitcoin and investing in AI
@infobeautiful And I don’t really remember a time I wasn’t fighting against it.
@infobeautiful and 10% of that is me using claude code last week to build a website for my cat.
@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%
@infobeautiful Seems like the rate increased dramatically 35-40 years ago, and had a smaller increase 19 years ago. I wonder what happened during those years.
Now break it down by who owns the emitter. 
Such madness…
@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?