It's not the same as a billion people it's the same as a single person in the poorest billion over that persons entire life (assuming 75 years), so a billion times less than what the title says. That's still gigantic though.
It's important to be correct. Guillotine bezos anyway.
It's a fun rejoinder to the folks that bitch about overpopulation, regardless.
when we collectively wake the fuck up and snap out of it
so... never
There's a big difference between being disgusted by this stuff and being able to do anything about it
The same amount a single American emits in 5 years, on average. This is worded really deceptively.
I was a little confused by this but it's not a billion people collectively, it's as much as one person in this group of a billion people.
Yeah, one sixth of all carbon emissions over a 70 year period seemed a bit much for a single suborbital hop, no matter how crap his rocket is.
As others have pointed out, the wording on the tweet is misleading. But measuring the cost of Bezos' joyride into space should also take into account all of the test missions, years of R&D, producing and shipping parts and materials, and so on to produce a rocket that does nothing that existing rockets didn't already do.
I got mocked one time on birb site asking about the emissions usage (genuine question) with the hundreds of SpaceX launches and I'm still annoyed about it. I knew they were bad but thus stuff seems way worse than even I imagined :/
