Primary Cause Of Global Warming
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Luxury?
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Consumerism?
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Modernism?
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Selfishness?
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Industry?
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Capitalism?
(PS: What can be changed? Go back to farming?)
Primary Cause = Us
Primary Cause Is Us
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Humanity cannot turn back.
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These 8 bn people are already here.
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They want to live 21st century lives,
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which will require food and energy.
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The human population is still growing.
- Could we curb the growth?
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Whether you like it or not.
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Where are all these people?
Where Are All These People?
Where Will They Be?
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OECD done growing, except for some immigration.
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Asia
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China is already shrinking, though surrounding countries compensate
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India+ will grow for one generation and then maybe shrink back to today.
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Latin America is stable.
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Only (Sub-Saharan) Africa is growing in leaps and bounds.
- 200 m in 1960
- 1,300 m 2020
- 4,300 m in 2100
Kaya Component Growth
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Emissions = Population * Income/Person * Inefficiency
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COâ‚‚ = N * GDP/N * COâ‚‚/GDP
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COâ‚‚ is in GtCOâ‚‚
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Population is in (million)
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Income/Person is in 1,000-$
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Inefficiency is in gCOâ‚‚/$
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Multiplicative: Any of these zero, and they all go away.
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Matter only together.
Identity Coâ‚‚ = N * Gdp/N * Coâ‚‚/Gdp
Year | Emissions | Population | Inc/P | Inefficiency |
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ca 1850 | 0.2 | 1,200 | 1 | 120 |
ca 1900 | 2.0 | 1,600 | 2 | 570 |
ca 1950 | 6.0 | 2,560 | 4 | 640 |
ca 2000 | 25.2 | 6,143 | 10 | 400 |
ca 2015 | 35.5 | 7,380 | 15 | 320 |
ca 2022 | 36.3 | 7,882 | 17 | 270 |
Per-Annum Average Growth
Year | Emissions | Population | Inc/P | Inefficiency |
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1850-2020 | +3.2% | +1.1% | +1.7% | +0.5% |
2020-2050e | +0.7% | +0.7% | +2.1% | –2.0% |
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Fighting Climate Change
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Donate to Greenpeace?
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Demonstrate at UN COP Conf?
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Use paper straws to reduce your carbon footprint?
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Shame your neighbors?
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Drown your sorrows and anxieties?
Which of these will meaningfully reduce the world’s population, reduce the world’s energy consumption, reduce the world’s CO~2~ emissions, and reduce the accumulating CO~2~ stock in the atmosphere?
If Everybody Did It…
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Would be great!
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But this will not be your doing or decision margin.
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If they would, they would; regardless of what you do.
Like It Or Not
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Be realistic!
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You are not divine.
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You are not even globally important..
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The world’s people won’t do what you tell them to do.
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Even religious leaders have stark limits.
- The pope can maybe get 10 million people to truly change behavior. What about the other 7.99 billion?
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Even politicians have stark limits.
- Even Trump and Modi are riding the tiger.
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Economics 101
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In large numbers, humans act selfishly.
- Ex-post self-rationalization is even built into our brains!
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How Many Can You Tackle?
Realistic Atmospheric CO~2~ Reduction Plans:
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Stop 0.00003 billion UCLA students?
- still tens of thousand of students. could you?
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Stop 0.0003 billion UC affiliates?
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Stop 0.003 billion Angelinos?
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Stop 0.03 billion Californians?
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Stop 0.3 billion Americans?
How many can you reasonably influence?
0.0001% of world is far more than 100% of your city.
American Success?!
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Assume you succeed on 0.3 billion Americans.
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You have been so influential that you have brought Americans to their tears and to their knees.
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They will immediately stop emitting and, if need be, even go back to the stone age.
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What about the 7-9 billion others?
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Will the rest of world follow because of the US example?
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Or will they act roughly independently?
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It not, then you won’t have done enough.
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Who could shame China, India, or Nigeria?
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Or can you get each then-stone-age Americans to pay for 5–20 other foreigners, too?
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(depends on cost?)
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