Comment on I'm doing my part

OS2Warp@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Photonic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This image looks like right wing corpo propaganda to me. It not only does it divert the attention away from the handful of megacorporations emitting 80% of all green house gases, it is attacking a moderate leftist – who admittedly causes a relatively large amount of greenhouse gases.

  But Taylor Swift is not making most of those flights on a personal basis. It’s to provide a service to fans. So in that sense we can regard the emissions as those of Taylor Swift the company. And in that sense they are much lower than many other companies who we often give a free pass.

  So, yes hold the big emitters responsible, but let’s start with the 57 on the list and work our way down to Taylor Swift.

  source

  • spicehoarder@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Taylor swift is a left is just like my racist boss has a black friend and is thus not racist.

    source
  • JDPoZ@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Bingo.

    It invites hatred from a sizeable (though perhaps potentially less politically-aware) fan base that might otherwise be receptive.

    Using someone as popular as Swift as a target for less-pop-culture-interested folks who are politically informed is clearly kicking the hornets’ nest to stir up in-fighting among the working class.

    Next time use Bezos or one of the other folks who showed up in that “Dialog” secret society since they also use private jets in the same way someone like Swift does, but in addition are far worse in every other way and who also lobby with their billions towards worsening the world in every way imaginable.

    source

    • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Yeah, if you convinced Taylor Swift to stop using a private plane, it’s analogous to fast food companies switching to paper straws while keeping everything else plastic. It helps, but it’s just demanding a token solution instead of taking on the bigger problem.

      source
  • OS2Warp@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you make a snappy meme about it, I’ll start using it.

    source
• helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Image

  source
• JustJack23@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Jeff Bezzos:

  Image

  source

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨29⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    So I’ve wanted to do this for a minute…

    But how many paper straws would you have to use to offset one of these explosions? How long would it take to offset one of these explosions through straw use?

    Writing this now I was surprised by the results…

    Source for plastic v paper straw data

    So apparently plastic straws are actually more carbon neutral than paper straws, but for the purposes of this analysis I’m going to carry it through to find out how long it takes to create equivalent emissions.

    Paper straws:

    Image

    Call it 1430 grams of emissions per straw (which is wild btw)

    Plastic straws:

    Image

    Call it 610 per plastic straw. Still wild for something which weighs less than a gram.

    This is also from the thesis

    Image

    So yeah… not great.

    Gonna be using 825 tons of carbon dioxide emitted from Hank Green’s video.

    I think Hank is working in US standard units here… which is also weird and annoying but whatever… We’re getting to units of rocket explosion per straw so it’s fine…

    And I’m going to be using 500 million straws per day, which is cited in the thesis from a 2017 study and repeated elsewhere in other studies on this.

    Image

    It’s not great but what even are we doing here…

    I don’t know how we get a plastic straw versus compostable straw use rate (what proportion of straws are still plastic versus how many are now paper or some other alternatives)

    But we get 820 additional grams of emissions for each straw swapped.

    500 tons to grams is:

    838238016

    Divided by the difference in co2e foot print per straw…

    838238016 / 820 is about 1022240, in other words, about a million.

    So for about every million straws swapped from plastic to paper, one giant fiery rocket explosion of CO2 emissions occurs.

    The US consumes straws at a convenient rate of 500 million a day, so if ALL of those straws were converted to paper, we’re setting off about 500 of those explosions per day.

    source
  • spicehoarder@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Have you noticed the intense UV this summer? I think he legit ripped a hole in the ozone layer with that explosion.

    source
• lime@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  taylor swift’s private plane is a 1947 boeing b-47 stratojet?

  girl’s got style.

  source
• FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I thought that was a lobster disintergrating at first

  source

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Everything looks like a lobster disintegrating when your only tool is a lobster reintegrator.

    source