Three climate activists have been fined for attempting to spray political messages on Woodside boss Meg O'Neill's home, after a Perth magistrate told the trio they had crossed a line by targeting her personally.
Is there a version of this that covers emissions per capita? Because while I agree that Australia is negligible in this picture, you need to balance it against our small population. I dislike this picture, because it breeds futility. Why should we even try to reduce our carbon footprint? We are a fart in the gale of climate change. But Australia is in the company of France and the UK here, both nations with 2-3 times our population. Yes, the vast size of our nation is a factor here, but we aren’t even trying.
The second problem with this graph is that unless we are taking carbon emissions seriously ourselves, we can’t exactly stand up on the world stage and point at China/USA/India for their actions. This issue needs to be driven by all of us. It needs to be the hot ticket issue that buys our votes. We need to be willing to elect people who will address this matter and enable us all to reduce our carbon emissions.
It’s fascinating to see how high the concern is but this is like the house being on fire and you’re running around freaking out trying to throw water on a piece of paper that happens to be nearby.
It’s worse than that. One of the biggest things the electorate wants is an increase in housing supply. Not just any housing though, we all want our 4x2’s in the suburbs. We want to produce carbon building houses in the suburbs so that we can produce carbon every day driving to and from those suburbs.
So it’s like throwing water on a paper while intentionally setting fire to another piece of paper each.
Is there a version of this that covers emissions per capita?
Here:
Not just any housing though, we all want our 4x2’s in the suburbs
Fuck that. I can’t think of anything worse. I wish we were building medium density 2–3 storey row houses and 3–4 storey apartment buildings (nice roomy apartments with 2–3 bedrooms and good amounts of spare space) as the default form of housing. Low density is so incredibly wasteful.
Thank you for providing this. It’s a depressing and not-at-all surprising picture.
I like to hope that my family is well below this figure - more like what France/UK is at. But, this website combined with some finger-in-the-air ballpark guesses said we used 17.9 tonnes last year, and that an average household used 15-20 (per this chart). Even accounting for a 2,000km road trip holiday in the past twelve months (half a tonne by itself), I can’t reconcile that we might be an above average household. 9.5 tonnes of it came from spending about $250/week on groceries - that’s not excessive for a family of four, is it? Half of our footprint is in groceries.
and that an average household used 15-20 (per this chart)
Uhh, careful now. That’s the average person. A household of 4 would multiply that number by 4!
Only, not really. It’s difficult to try to make a comparison between the per capita emissions of a country and the direct emissions by an individual. Many of the biggest emissions will not be captured by an individual’s footprint, even in a calculator attempting to capture as much as possible. It’s why the entire notion of individuals’ “carbon footprint” (a concept created specifically by BP as a way to shift blame onto individuals and stall real action on climate change) is mostly bs.
Also worth noting that this chart specifically says that land-use change is not considered. That’s a big problem with agriculture, especially beef and dairy production. Aside from the ecological and other environmental issues it creates, it also releases a lot of carbon.
Yep less of the burbs. I’ve been really captured by human scale streets and centres surrounded by houses lately.
Decentralising the car from our lives could save so much wasted energy, and therefore CO2 equivalent emissions.
I always like the idea of the Barcelona style blocks, but their cars are still more central than i think would make a more desirable neigjbourhood, for all kinds of reasons but first among them is emissions.
Used to? If you found some of the more recent ones a little too “inside baseball”, I’d recommend the latest one, about road bricks. It feels a lot more classic NJB.
Sorry, personal decision. Nothing wrong with NJB. I stopped watching youtube a couple years ago. Couldn’t deal with the algorithm always pushing me onto new creators all the time, and the constant conspiracy/rightward shift in programming the algorithm spewed up.
I think one day i might do Nebula, but i actually like watching less in general now. My jobs such that i have very high podcast listening hours, so i stay well plugged in without the videos. But also lifes busy with family, so the few hours i get per day for myself i’d rather spend more productively. Like reading and posting articles on Lemmy :p
tbh I’ve never taken that seriously, it implies that like tiny islands are contributing far more than they do, I’ve always argued that if you have a billion people your share and responsibility is a billion times higher than everyone else’s
Also because
we can’t exactly stand up on the world stage and point at China/USA/India for their actions
I don’t really think they care at all what we say tbh, COVID was proof, when push comes to shove they won’t admit to anything even if the whole world is looking at them…
Inline with:
I dislike this picture, because it breeds futility
In a lot of ways it is futile, we are a tiny island nation with 25,000,000 people vs 3,000,000,000 Chinese and Indians
and on top of that… most people don’t give a shit about the climate which you noticed:
One of the biggest things the electorate wants is an increase in housing supply. Not just any housing though, we all want our 4x2’s in the suburbs.
and even better! there are loads of people who fill out forms saying climate change is a top priority! but then the moment there’s any sort of inconvenience at all, they turn around and suddenly detest climate action, look at the amount of hate paper straws get and they don’t even have anything to do with climate change :))
And now in Queensland I have to put up with the liberal party taking us back 10 years with renewables :|
To me I’d far prefer it if those 4 people had good jobs making good money and spent it on solar installs, battery installs, EV’s, heat pumps, even donating to https://corenafund.org.au/ because the money goes directly to climate action
CORENA offers zero interest loans and technical assistance to eligible non profits for climate projects which are repaid using their energy cost savings.
I still use ecosia.org every day etc, I just think that protesting like this and blocking roads is silly when you can actually implement change yourself so effectively, just do the best that you can do, vote for climate friendly political parties and your job is 99% done
Is there a version of this that covers emissions per capita? Because while I agree that Australia is negligible in this picture, you need to balance it against our small population. I dislike this picture, because it breeds futility. Why should we even try to reduce our carbon footprint? We are a fart in the gale of climate change. But Australia is in the company of France and the UK here, both nations with 2-3 times our population. Yes, the vast size of our nation is a factor here, but we aren’t even trying.
The second problem with this graph is that unless we are taking carbon emissions seriously ourselves, we can’t exactly stand up on the world stage and point at China/USA/India for their actions. This issue needs to be driven by all of us. It needs to be the hot ticket issue that buys our votes. We need to be willing to elect people who will address this matter and enable us all to reduce our carbon emissions.
It’s worse than that. One of the biggest things the electorate wants is an increase in housing supply. Not just any housing though, we all want our 4x2’s in the suburbs. We want to produce carbon building houses in the suburbs so that we can produce carbon every day driving to and from those suburbs.
So it’s like throwing water on a paper while intentionally setting fire to another piece of paper each.
Here:
Fuck that. I can’t think of anything worse. I wish we were building medium density 2–3 storey row houses and 3–4 storey apartment buildings (nice roomy apartments with 2–3 bedrooms and good amounts of spare space) as the default form of housing. Low density is so incredibly wasteful.
Thank you for providing this. It’s a depressing and not-at-all surprising picture.
I like to hope that my family is well below this figure - more like what France/UK is at. But, this website combined with some finger-in-the-air ballpark guesses said we used 17.9 tonnes last year, and that an average household used 15-20 (per this chart). Even accounting for a 2,000km road trip holiday in the past twelve months (half a tonne by itself), I can’t reconcile that we might be an above average household. 9.5 tonnes of it came from spending about $250/week on groceries - that’s not excessive for a family of four, is it? Half of our footprint is in groceries.
Uhh, careful now. That’s the average person. A household of 4 would multiply that number by 4!
Only, not really. It’s difficult to try to make a comparison between the per capita emissions of a country and the direct emissions by an individual. Many of the biggest emissions will not be captured by an individual’s footprint, even in a calculator attempting to capture as much as possible. It’s why the entire notion of individuals’ “carbon footprint” (a concept created specifically by BP as a way to shift blame onto individuals and stall real action on climate change) is mostly bs.
Also worth noting that this chart specifically says that land-use change is not considered. That’s a big problem with agriculture, especially beef and dairy production. Aside from the ecological and other environmental issues it creates, it also releases a lot of carbon.
Yep less of the burbs. I’ve been really captured by human scale streets and centres surrounded by houses lately.
Decentralising the car from our lives could save so much wasted energy, and therefore CO2 equivalent emissions.
I always like the idea of the Barcelona style blocks, but their cars are still more central than i think would make a more desirable neigjbourhood, for all kinds of reasons but first among them is emissions.
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I used to like Not Just Bikes videos they were always very informative.
Used to? If you found some of the more recent ones a little too “inside baseball”, I’d recommend the latest one, about road bricks. It feels a lot more classic NJB.
Sorry, personal decision. Nothing wrong with NJB. I stopped watching youtube a couple years ago. Couldn’t deal with the algorithm always pushing me onto new creators all the time, and the constant conspiracy/rightward shift in programming the algorithm spewed up.
I think one day i might do Nebula, but i actually like watching less in general now. My jobs such that i have very high podcast listening hours, so i stay well plugged in without the videos. But also lifes busy with family, so the few hours i get per day for myself i’d rather spend more productively. Like reading and posting articles on Lemmy :p
tbh I’ve never taken that seriously, it implies that like tiny islands are contributing far more than they do, I’ve always argued that if you have a billion people your share and responsibility is a billion times higher than everyone else’s
Also because
I don’t really think they care at all what we say tbh, COVID was proof, when push comes to shove they won’t admit to anything even if the whole world is looking at them…
Inline with:
In a lot of ways it is futile, we are a tiny island nation with 25,000,000 people vs 3,000,000,000 Chinese and Indians
and on top of that… most people don’t give a shit about the climate which you noticed:
and even better! there are loads of people who fill out forms saying climate change is a top priority! but then the moment there’s any sort of inconvenience at all, they turn around and suddenly detest climate action, look at the amount of hate paper straws get and they don’t even have anything to do with climate change :))
And now in Queensland I have to put up with the liberal party taking us back 10 years with renewables :|
But… there’s still plenty of good things happening, I still thank MastoFeed.org for making running this account a pinch: https://mastodon.au/@RenewEconomyRSSFeed
Just today:
Brown coal hits new low in Victoria as wind and battery records tumble and renewables peak at 95.2 pct
https://reneweconomy.com.au/brown-coal-hits-new-low-in-victoria-as-wind-and-battery-records-tumble-and-renewables-peak-at-95-2-pct/
To me I’d far prefer it if those 4 people had good jobs making good money and spent it on solar installs, battery installs, EV’s, heat pumps, even donating to https://corenafund.org.au/ because the money goes directly to climate action
I still use ecosia.org every day etc, I just think that protesting like this and blocking roads is silly when you can actually implement change yourself so effectively, just do the best that you can do, vote for climate friendly political parties and your job is 99% done