• Zagorath
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    10 days ago

    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.

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      9 days ago

      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.

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        8 days ago

        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.

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      10 days ago

      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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            10 days ago

            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.

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              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