Information is Beautiful: '"What can we do personally to reduce emissions?" Discovered this new website, which uses graphics + charts to communicate data. A couple of comments though. One egregious error is listing an efficient gas or diesel car as equivalent in emissions to an electric vehicle. Granted, electric cars [2] are associated with more emissions in production of batteries + construction of the body of the car. But a lifecycle analysis clearly shows EVs have 52% fewer emissions over their full service life. And about 97% of the components of the battery are recyclable. Also notice the much more limited utility of purchasing a hybrid car [3], though I think if a comparison had been drawn to only plug-in hybrids the result would have been more positive. But for almost everybody, taking fewer flights [1] is the biggest winner. If you read the fine print, this represents a single round-trip transatlantic flight. Which would undo all the other good things you accomplished over the yr. Time to start thinking hard about eliminating a single flight. Baby steps, but important. Finally, in terms of of individual tonnes of CO2 emitted per yr, Australians + Americans [4] really need to step up their game.
