Some fun new science on climate change. This one is, well, kinda dumb but illuminating. They somehow said the quiet part aloud and showed what we would actually have to do to meet their insane climate change goals, as listed out in their
Decent Living Standards.
It is increasingly clear that averting ecological breakdown will require drastic changes to contemporary human society and the global economy embedded…
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Highlights include:
Food 2000–2150 kcal/cap/day
A healthy, 20-year-old, average-sized human male with moderate physical activity will start consuming their own body for energy and lose weight at 2800 Calories a day. Even a lightly-active
80-year old man needs
2087 to survive. So this is basically starvation for all. You might be thinking that women need less so it averages out, and you're right about women needing less. However, the minimum for
a woman is 2000 so either only women can
barely survive while all the men rapidly starve, or everybody slowly starves together under this plan. And of course, if any of those women get pregnant their needs go up so...
Household size 4 persons/household
Sufficient space 15 meters SQ floor-space/cap
Illumination 2500 lm/house; 6 hrs/day
150 square feet per person is their
Decent Living Standard. Note that
Japan, home of the ultra-condensed city population and micro-apartment, recommends a minimum of 25 square meters per person and considers 40 square meters ideal (Minimum for groups living in one house is 20 meters per person plus 25 for shared space, so a family of four would consider 105 a bare minimum). Coupled with their previous note that humans should live per house, they're suggesting that four people should have only half again what Japan considers ideal for
one. Also, you only get to turn the lights on for six hours a day... wait, that's 2500 lumens and a light bulb is about 1100 lumens, you can only light up two table lamps for six hours a day plus a couple more hours for one of them, you can't illuminate your whole house ever unless it's all one big room which... actually you don't have room for anything else anyway do you?
Clothes 4 kg of new clothing/year 33%
Washing facilities 80 kg of washing/year
A single outfit for a man is over 4 pounds, about 1.8 kilos. So only being allowed 4kg of clothes a year basically means you get two sets of clothing a year, plus a bathrobe for after you shower (Unless your towel counts, it probably does, in which case no bathrobe for you). Also, you're only allowed to clean your clothes 20 times, or a bit less than every two weeks, per year, so expect to wear one of your two outfits for a week straight before you can afford to change, then the second one another week before you can clean them. I'm sure everyone will enjoy the delightful smells that will result from these
Decent Living Standards.
Water supply 50 Litres/cap/day
Yeah, Imma have to take back the bit about a bathrobe after you shower above because you won't be showering much on this water ration. I guess the reek of your week-old clothes won't be bothering anybody over the reek of your unwashed body. Remember all the flak Israel kept getting for wickedly limiting
Palestinians to 87 liters a day, well below the WHO's minimum standard of 100 liters a day?
Yeah, I think that spells it out. To combat climate change, the
Decent Living Standards will make current Palestinians look like they live in the lap of luxury in every way. I'm pretty sure even North Koreans are too wealthy to meet these standards.
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