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Because I'm still seeing "Both parties are the same!" trolls in the comments (slrpnk.net)

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[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

860 miles by car

So about 0.272 tonnes of CO2e per year per https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/how-much-ton-carbon-dioxide ?

Of a total of about "2.1 tonnes per person annual emissions budget necessary by 2050 to meet the 2 °C climate target (Girod et al 2014)" per https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7541#erlaa7541r22 (Girod 2014 seems to be paywalled).

0 of 58.6 tonnes of CO2e/year because I'm childfree,
0 of 2.4 tonnes since I'm carfree (never bought a car, I don't even have a driver's license),
0 of 1.6 tonnes per flight (tho I did fly once in my life, more than a decade ago),
1.47 for electricity because I don't buy ethical green energy,
? because I'm vegan, so that reduces my footprint a lot, but I'm not sure what to deduct the 0.82 from,
? because of cold washing laundry, but I don't know what to deduct the 0.25 from,
0.272 tonnes for using a computer to access the internet,
? for several other things tho at an order of magnitude lower than the big ticket items.

That total seems below the 2.1 tonnes of CO2e per year sustainable target per person by 2050.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, again, you are excusing your being complicit in this because of your need for a luxury. You know full well that adding CO2 to the atmosphere is not a good thing. You just want to feel like you don't contribute.

And as far as your righteous veganism goes, I bet you aren't even considering the vast amount of carbon that is needed to farm and ship all the plants and possibly fungi you eat that can't be grown in your area.

Or are you now going to claim you only eat locally-sourced vegan food at farmer's markets in enough bulk to survive the winter?

And then we get into the spices. If you claim you only use local herbs when you cook, I won't believe you.

Sorry, you help contribute massive amounts of CO2 to the atmosphere as well. You just want to blame everyone but yourself.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There is a difference between sustainable, non-sustainable, and catastrophically unsustainable; and it's an important difference. Having a locavore diet is very easy where I live, except for vitamin B12 supplements which are not locally sourced or made. I don't know what you mean by "survive the winter", it's not an issue where I live. I only use salt and turmeric when I prepare food - tho some processed food I buy contains other spices.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Good thing a ton of carbon wasn't used to get that salt and turmeric to you.

Oh wait, it was.

Also that processed food, half of that came from across the planet.

But hey, you have to have your luxuries, so everyone else has to sacrifice.