If you are aged 30 or more, then 50% of all human fossil fuel emissions happened during your lifetime. (by Neil Kaye)
Source: https://bsky.app/profile/infobeautiful.bsky.social/post/3kopcy5lddn2e
The graph highlights major percentiles, such as 75%.
The one that struck me though was the value for age 60, because that’s clearly when the graph starts to flatten out, which means it’s when things started to really grow.
And, as one would expect, it lines up pretty perfectly with the young end of the boomer generation. That is, those born ~1960 and earlier have overseen 80-90% of all global emissions.
And if you’re an early boomer ~1945-1950, then ~80% has happened since you’ve been able to vote.
People were using other fuels before they start using fossil fuels. Like wood. It is double whammy - more CO2 (less efficient burning) and no CO2 recapturing by those burned trees.
But a tree grows quickly, say 50 years. compared to how fast oil is produced by dead organic matter underground. Is not the burn wood-> grow a tree -> burn wood a much shorter and more sustainable co2 cycle?
Wood burning do have a problem with local polution do.There are plenty examples of total destructions of forests in the beginning of industrial revolution in Europe. So, no, a tree does not grow.