Tipping Tower info source links below 👇🏼
Greenhouse gasses: https://climate.mit.edu/explainers/greenhouse-gases
How many people have flown?: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/how-much-worlds-population-has-flown-airplane-180957719/
What makes the most greenhouse gas?: https://ourworldindata.org/ghg-emissions-by-sector
Are climate and weather the same thing?: https://www.noaa.gov/explainers/what-s-difference-between-climate-and-weather
Emissions from what we drive and where we live: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412019315752
99% of publishing scientists agree: https://theconversation.com/the-97-climate-consensus-is-over-now-its-well-above-99-and-the-evidence-is-even-stronger-than-that-170370
Electric car battery recycling: https://electrek.co/2023/03/02/tesla-cofounders-redwood-shows-95-efficiency-in-battery-recycling-pilot/
Gladiators ate mostly plants: https://phys.org/news/2014-10-anthropology-clues-roman-gladiators-habits.html
Pollution from what we eat vs. what we drive: https://www.kohalacenter.org/HISGN/pdf/carbofoodprint.pdf and https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/greenhouse-gas-emissions-typical-passenger-vehicle
Wild animals are only 4% of the world’s biomass: https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammals-birds-biomass
45% world habitable land is used for livestock: https://ourworldindata.org/global-land-for-agriculture
One less hamburger = not driving for 320 miles: https://www.thecooldown.com/sustainable-food/plant-based-meats-dairy-milk-saving-energy/
Half the earths oxygen comes from our oceans: https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/ocean-oxygen.html
A couple degrees is a big deal: https://www.science.org/content/article/just-small-rise-earth-s-temperature-could-cause-irreversible-ecosystem-and-weather
It still gets cold and global warming is happening: https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/12/if-global-warming-is-real-why-is-it-cold-outside/
10 hottest years were in the last decade: https://www.noaa.gov/news/2023-was-worlds-warmest-year-on-record-by-far
The earths climate changes, but this is different: https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/has-there-been-climate-change
How much tropical rain-forest was cut down in 2023: https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2024/04/04/tropical-deforestation/
Over 60 electric car models for sale in the USA: https://www.carscoops.com/2023/12/future-evs-over-60-new-electric-cars-trucks-and-suvs-coming-in-2024/
E-Bike are cutting oil demand 4x more than EVs: https://theconversation.com/the-worlds-280-million-electric-bikes-and-mopeds-are-cutting-demand-for-oil-far-more-than-electric-cars-213870
Half our trips are under 3 miles: https://insideevs.com/news/585399/majority-daily-car-trips-less-three-miles/
86% of new energy installed in 2023 was renewable: https://www.irena.org/News/pressreleases/2024/Mar/Record-Growth-in-Renewables-but-Progress-Needs-to-be-Equitable
92% of us drive for most weekday trips: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/how-people-get-around-america-europe-asia/
T/F Making our cars and homes electric will collapse the grid: https://cleantechnica.com/2024/02/02/the-us-added-1-2-million-evs-to-the-grid-last-year-electricity-use-went-down/
Clothes are only worn seven times on average before being discarded: https://earth.org/statistics-about-fast-fashion-waste/
T/F Most people are concerned about the climate: https://ourworldindata.org/climate-change-support
T/F Windmills kill more birds than vehicles, power lines, buildings and cats: https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/wind-power-bird-deaths
T/F composting your food wast can cut landfill emissions up to 84%: https://grist.org/food/food-waste-prevent-methane-pollution-compost/
T/F food waste is the single most common material landfilled: https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/blog/2022/01/24/food-waste-and-its-links-greenhouse-gases-and-climate-change
3 out of 10 plates of food is wasted: https://www.rts.com/resources/guides/food-waste-america/
