I have a real hard time with all these stats. I seriously doubt the "average brit" is responsible for creating 10 tons of CO2 in any time frame short of their entire lifetime. That's 100 times the entire mass of a human male emitted as a gas. A full tank of gas in your average car is only 100 pounds or so and it's not fully converted to CO2 by a long shot. How much CO2 are you responsible for biologically? A few grams? How much was first removed and sequestered by the plants you eat? By the plants eaten by the animals you eat?
I have a real hard time with all these stats. I seriously doubt the "average brit" is responsible for creating 10 tons of CO2 in any time frame short of their entire lifetime. That's 100 times the entire mass of a human male emitted as a gas. A full tank of gas in your average car is only 100 pounds or so and it's not fully converted to CO2 by a long shot. How much CO2 are you responsible for biologically? A few grams? How much was first removed and sequestered by the plants you eat? By the plants eaten by the animals you eat?
This shit is ridiculous.
Whenever anyone gives you a stat saying "the average person", press X to doubt.
(also common: "this thing is more more likely to happen to you than that thing")
I believe the way they come to that figure is by taking the total "co2 output" of a country and then dividing that by the population.
Gives you a higher "responsibility" for cow emissions while conveniently removing corporations from the equation.