This is wrong. It’s 20-25%. And the last 50 years includes a whole bunch on non-boomers and a massive industrialization of Asia. WTF is up with you people and “boomers”? There’s always going to be old people. And all of them were formerly young people.
I didn’t say a word about boomers, I was replying to a post about the industrial revolution and 200 years ago.
But to get back to my point, in 1993 the cumulative emissions were 861 billion tons and in 2023 it was 1770 billion tons. So almost perfectly doubled in 30 years.
Hi shit for brains. I was replying to a comment about the industrial revolution beginning 200 years ago. I wasn’t making a comment on gen z or baby boomers. I was pointing out that the people alive today are the ones responsible for climate change - not the people who lived over a hundred years ago. Bless you, I hope you have a great day.
It’s survivorship bias. The folks who survived from 1946 to 2025 were in the economic cohort with the least stress, the most accumulated wealth, and the most egregious consumption habits. Can’t blame all the Americans who died of black lung in the coal fields or were left destitute after midwestern industrialization or got wiped out during the AIDS epidemic or from heart disease or smoker’s lung or COVID or the 40k car fatalities/year, cause they’re not around anymore.
Safe to assume anyone still around does, in fact, carry a disproportionate share of the blame.
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Ha ha sure, 200 years of Industrial Revolution but it’s the “boomers” fault.
50% of fossil carbon has been released in the last 30 years.
This is wrong. It’s 20-25%. And the last 50 years includes a whole bunch on non-boomers and a massive industrialization of Asia. WTF is up with you people and “boomers”? There’s always going to be old people. And all of them were formerly young people.
I didn’t say a word about boomers, I was replying to a post about the industrial revolution and 200 years ago.
But to get back to my point, in 1993 the cumulative emissions were 861 billion tons and in 2023 it was 1770 billion tons. So almost perfectly doubled in 30 years.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-co2-emissions-region?stackMode=absolute&time=1993..latest
So it was gen z who did it then.
Do you not listen to yourself how moronic that argument is?
Hi shit for brains. I was replying to a comment about the industrial revolution beginning 200 years ago. I wasn’t making a comment on gen z or baby boomers. I was pointing out that the people alive today are the ones responsible for climate change - not the people who lived over a hundred years ago. Bless you, I hope you have a great day.
It’s survivorship bias. The folks who survived from 1946 to 2025 were in the economic cohort with the least stress, the most accumulated wealth, and the most egregious consumption habits. Can’t blame all the Americans who died of black lung in the coal fields or were left destitute after midwestern industrialization or got wiped out during the AIDS epidemic or from heart disease or smoker’s lung or COVID or the 40k car fatalities/year, cause they’re not around anymore.
Safe to assume anyone still around does, in fact, carry a disproportionate share of the blame.