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I assume you don't know what the original joke is? The original is, in fact, a graph, this is a joke from a movie called Crocodile Dundee, where a guy pulls a knife on the main character, who proceeds to go "that's not a knife" and pull out the largest bladed weapon that could still be considered a knife and says "this, is a knife."

Hope this was helpful and that I'm not explaining something you already know.

Not quite a full 20%, but yeah, in your situation, that's a big longevity problem. This data is obviously better for people not living in very hot climates. It looks like the first graph (which the 1.8% average is pulled from) is keeping climate constant (and probably temperate.)

That's insane. No company should be allowed to produce that much waste. Yes, I mean that they should be responsible for the fact that all their clothes get thrown away.

This is great

I attended my local no kings protest as well. Glad to be part of it, somewhat disturbed by the amount of pro military messaging I saw though.

Thanks for catching that!

This is the big thing, monocropping is the big problem with lawns (outside of the literal desert.)

This looked like a pretty reasonable report to me. Not exactly hopeful, but maybe slightly better than my hope was before. My takeaways are the same as they were:

1. The US isn't going to lead the fight, we need China (and India) to make progress (faster than it is, though this report was somewhat hopeful to me on that front.)
2. Solar and batteries is gonna be the main source, governments need to build that.
3. Individuals help by A. Being active in the political processes of democratic countries. B. Switching to EVs or preferably off cars altogether. C. Limiting or preferably eliminating meat consumption. D. Switching heating devices off of gas. But individual actions won't be the primary driving force behind any change.
4. General societal shifts towards a reduction in consumption are going to be required.

Epic! I hope to be able to ditch my car in the next two years, and I've mostly stopped eating meat too, and I haven't turned my AC/Heat on since February (and then not for long.) I feel like taking the kind of steps needed to drastically reduce your share of emissions is easier than a lot of people make it out to be. (Though obviously it depends on life circumstances.)

Yeah, obviously you can't blame one individual. Only a ton of individuals in aggregate. That's why its important to change the behavior of large swathes of people.

Yeah, this is a big thing. We really should be trying to replace as much air travel as possible with trains (cause they can be electric,) but otherwise there's not a whole lot we can do in the "making traveling very long distances in a reasonable time energy efficient" space.