See if you can read this without becoming defensive or angry.
At the moment the death rate resulting from global climate heating of the atmosphere caused by burning fossil fuels is estimated globally at about 10 million people annually.
There are approximately one billion of us who are substantially responsible for the fossil fuel use.
The carbon dioxide will remain in the atmosphere for approximately 100,000 years, assuming we don’t go past the thresholds for runaway greenhouse, or we don’t do drawdown of carbon dioxide.
So, in that case at the current rate 10 million people will die every year for 100,000 years. That’s one trillion future deaths.
If we divide those future deaths by one billion people, that’s 1,000 future deaths. In other words, each of us first world people – man, woman, and child – are responsible for 1,000 future deaths resulting from our use of carbon dioxide.
This is the reality now, but current national commitments for IPCC plans to more than double the greenhouse gases. So our individual responsibility is likely to be more like 3,000 future deaths. That’s about one future death you create every week you make carbon emissions.
Given that, you might prefer to go off the grid with a home battery, rooftop panels, induction stove, a new or secondhand EV imported, and a beef-free diet, NOW.
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