Model split also has it’s downsides. For example:

Not every trip is the same in every country. Denmark commutes 22km on average, the Netherlands does 3km

Not every country travels as far. Someone who does 10km by train out of 100km has a much greater share than 20km out of 10.000.

Only half? They must have taken some impressive anti-corruption measures to get it down.

Pretty sure that’s not how consulates work…

A lot of the issues you mention are, at least in part, caused by not dying. For example, I’ve got asthma, but without bronchodialators I wouldn’t be an asthma patient, I’d just be dead. Another is better diagnosis, melanoma are much easier to identify nowadays, and we actually do diagnosis. If you look at old death reports, they contain a LOT of “sickness of the X” or “natural causes” for people in their early 60s.

Oh absolutely, in the grand scheme of how fucked humanity is, most chemicals are barely a blip compared to ecosystem collapse and global warming.

I know it looks like this sometimes, but it’s really not all that bad.

I’m a chemist, I work mostly in (workplace) safety, hazardous materials and waste, so I sorta-kinda know what I’m talking about. I’m also a random internet stranger, so definitely check my data for yourself.

Compared to 50 or 60 years ago, when we had leased gasoline, asbestos carpets, ashtrays at macdonalds, trash burning in cities, indoor gas/oil lamps, coal heaters and pewter/lead cups (well ok, not those last ones but you get the idea), we’re doing SO much better.

If we didn’t ban all those things, you literally wouldn’t be able to spot the problems coming from BPA. It would be lost in the noise from how bad all those other things are for your health.

That’s not to say we should ignore microplastics, or that they’re healthy, or that modern people are whiny babies. Absolutely not. BPA is absolutely bad for you, but it’s more of a “dog biting your hand” type of bad, as opposed to the “bear mauling your face” level of bad we had in the 60s and 70s. Both can kill you, but you’ll barely notice the dog while having your face mauled.

For internal consumption.

Just keep saying you’re winning massive victories and planning to rename the streets in Amsterdam, and some Russians might be dumb enough to believe it

Spending 45% doesn’t mean anything like getting 45%. You’ve gotta subtract all the graft and corruption, and all the sanction-dodging isn’t exactly free either.

Additionally, it’s the 11th largest economy fighting against the donations of more than half of the countries above it in the ranking

Absolutely, I can easily do that right now, but it takes more effort than your average “I have a bank account and that’s it” person is willing to spend.

Having a “public sale” sounds like a great idea for all those people.

I wish the Netherlands would hold a sale like this, only for persons, with a sensible limit of a million or something like that.

There are literally no downsides.

And if western Europe does end up collapsing, I don’t think you want any investments, other than canned food and a deep basement.

With a sprinkling of “we have always been at war with NATO”

It’ll trickle down aaaaaany day now.

you should place a solar pannels on your roof and make some money while also reducing your footprint far beyond what you see on the graph?

The average household of 2.1 people here (the Netherlands) produces 0.8 tons of CO2e from electricity per year, at the current power mix. So, reducing that to zero places you somewhere between colder washes and getting a hybrid (0.4 tons). Not nothing, but also not even past the left half of the chart.

Also, realistically, net-zero isn’t actually zero at all, you need to massively overproduce to truly offset your consumption.

Too lazy to photoshop, but the average dutch household produces 2.2 tons of CO2e for heating and 0.8 tons in electricity. The average household is 2.1 people, so call it 1 ton for heating, and .4 tons for electricity.

• So going completely off-grid (VERY hard) will place somewhere around equal to the “Buying green energy” bar (duh…).
• Just solar panels will rank around “Replace car with electric”.
• Switching to a heatpump is roughly similar.

Looking at a couple of sites shows a vegetarian diet produces something like 4-4.5 tons of Co2e a year, and vegan 3-3.5 tons. A “normal” diet ranges between 7 and 10 tons, probably depending on your definition of normal. Other sites list 1.5, 1.7 and 3.5 tons for vegan/vegetarian/regular.

The big gain seems to be dropping meat, with everything else* adding another 10% or so savings. But 1 tons of CO2 is roughly equivalent to driving your mid-sized (european mid-sized, that is) car for 5000km.

*These numbers are purely diet. I can’t seem to find anything for a whole lifestyle.

eventual grandchildren aren’t your choice.

Not having children is a pretty certain method of not having grandchildren though. You can compared the local/national/worldwide average reproduction odds against the certainty of not having (great)grandchildren.

Dont underestimate the role straight up racism played in the brexit vote. It wasn’t just foreign propaganda, and much of the propaganda was enabled by racism.

Everyone who’s a conservative right now, is either:

A: completely forgotton their live before turning 25-30

B: Is a massive asshole who actively wants others to suffer for their own gain

C: Is a completely brainwashed morons who legitimately can’t see the problems they’re causing.