CAN A [Little Sponge] DO THIS?

not want to.

HAVE to.

as in, society compels us to. under penalty of... anything from social pariahship to death.

it should be a choice. for everyone. you want to wear make-up, or wear flower patterns, or do your hair a certain way, or bake, or whatever else? great!! you should still have that option!

It's more like TWO thirds.

Let's go from the top of the 24 Hour cycle:

Sleep: for the sake of argument let's say the recommend 8HRs, for the purpose of illustration even those getting FULL rest are still left exhausted by day's end.

So that gives us effectively a 16HR day.

Get Ready For Work: we'll say 1HR, and that's GENEROUS. Showering/Teethbrushing, getting dressed, scarfing down breakfast, getting out the door.

Commute: for simplicity, we'll say 1HR overall, averaging out a half hour each way.

Work Shift: 8-5 is the new 9-5. That's 4HR before lunch, 4HR after lunch

Lunch Hour: I am INCLUDING this in Work Time Commitment. Because your options are either prep ahead (in which prep time is transferred from your evening) or go get something. Either way, you aren't exactly "free" - you have to stay within accessible distance from your workplace to be back in time after eating or you eat at the office - either you're not really "off work" since you're not exactly able to go see a movie, or go to a venue/show, or go home and work on your hobbies/crafts, etc. you are on LUNCH break and basically lunch break only. So that's another hour.

So from wake up to back home, that's 10 Hours devoted to actively working or preparing for/around work.

Out of SIXTEEN waking hours.

BUT WAIT!!! THERES MORE!!

What about laundry? Cleaning house? Feeding yourself? Grocery shopping? Dishes? Maintenance needs? The day to day shit that has to get done just to live at a steady pace without it all piling up on you.

Lets an hour for dinner, then

Maintenance/Choring comes out to an hour or so on average a day for washing up after dinner, getting ready for bed/the next morning, and the addition of longer commitments every few days for grocery trips, laundry, room cleanings, getting gas, etc.

So 12.

12/16 hours, WORKING.

THREE QUARTERS OF OUR DAY.

WORKING OR GETTING/BEING READY TO WORK.

And that's without kids.

収穫祭

2015年、長屋門公園。

Ornate Hawk Eagle (Spizaetus ornatus), family Accipitridae, order Accipitriformes, Costa Rica

Bc so many ppl focus on the idea of telling A Trusted Adult, but even a well-meaning individual can fuck up and let abuse fall through the cracks or not know what to do

Whereas if a child tells LOADS of adults AND other kids, there's far less opportunity for an abuser to do damage control

Consistently telling their story and spreading it around disempowers the abuser to control and coerce the flow of information, or to utilise gaps and weaknesses in systems of reporting or welfare to isolate the child

(x)

spawning responses like

(x) which is... not entirely wrong

and

which is completely misunderstanding the original study - the Carbon Majors Database, CDP Carbon Majors Report 2017.

What this report absolutely does not say is "100 companies burn enough fossil fuels to produce 70% of emissions per year." It says something more like "70% of emissions since the 1988 can be traced back to extraction of fossil fuels by 100 producers." Those 100 producers include 36 state-owned companies, 7 state-owned producers, 41 public companies, and 16 private companies.

It also says that over half of industrial emissions since 1988 can be traced to just 25 producers. Of those 635 gigatons of emitted CO2, 59% come from state-owned producers, 32% from public companies, and 9% from private companies.

The largest shares here at the bottom of the graph are all state-owned producers: an aggregate of Chinese state-owned coal producers, Saudi Aramco (owned by the Saudi Arabian state), Gazprom (a Russian company with majority ownership by the state and partial public ownership), National Iranian Oil (unsurprisingly, nationally owned), and then finally we get to the first non-state-owned company (ExxonMobil).

The fraction is nearly identical for values for yearly emissions in 2015 - 59% of emissions since 1988 are tied to extraction by state-owned producers. Nonetheless:

"Emissions from investor-owned companies are significant: of the 30.6 GtCO2e of operational and product GHG emissions from 224 fossil fuel extraction companies, 30% is public investor-owned, 11% is private investor-owned, and 59% is state-owned."

There is absolutely immense responsibility on producers for extracting, marketing, and selling fossil fuels, and for (in several notable cases) deliberately covering up anthropogenic climate change as an outcome of fossil fuel use. But that extraction doesn't occur in a vacuum - fuels are extracted and burned for heat, for electricity, for transport, for industry.

The tweet about nothing changing if people didn't drive and used plastic straws is exactly wrong: fossil fuels are valuable to extract because they're used for everything around us. In the US, transportation accounts for ~29% of greenhouse gas emissions, and 57% of that is from personal vehicles. In 2016, the average passenger car fuel efficiency in the US was 22.1 miles per gallon; an electric car can easily get > 100 miles-per-gallon-equivalent, some as high as 142 miles-per-gallon-equivalent. Magically substituting all gas cars in the US alone for electric would slash nationwide emissions by 13 percentage points even if all those vehicles were powered by electricity made from fossil fuels! (Clearly there are a lot of gross assumptions and approximations there.) (Also, yes, magic wand car swaps aren't a thing we can do in real life, but it's what the tweet said, so I wanted to toss it in there.)