for the record the study mostly focuses on energy consumption from travel + cooking & heating in private homes. results say that “in transport the richest tenth of consumers use more than half the energy”, while in cooking and heating “the top 10% of consumers used roughly one third of the total, presumably reflecting the size of their homes.”
heavy focus also on how the standard of living in the US & European countries is such that we consume WAY more energy than anyone else, by a truly ridiculous and astronomical degree.
Please make “yay I’m glad they did a study!” a more common reaction than “WATER IS WET.” The “LOL DUHHHHH” attitude reinforces the attitude that researchers are clueless to the “real world” and “wasting” resources to study things we “already know,” as if they were just too self-righteous to walk down the street and ask a “normal” person to tell them some obvious truth about the world.
The correct reaction is to thank the people who worked hard to support what you “already knew” with hard data and numbers. They are literally helping and supporting what we keep saying, and they are often doing so for relatively meager pay to boot.
Watching people on twitter vehemently deny fatphobia’s existence while being extremely fatphobic is so funny to watch. Everybody loves “natural bodies” unless they’re overweight huh Bc we all know we can accurately guess somebody’s entire health status just from a number on a scale!
it’s just blowing me Bc people are constantly talking about body dysmorphia, disordered eating, and unrealistic body standards but….nobody wants to acknowledge that it’s normal to be fat? That it is OKAY to be fat? People starve their children, monitor their weight, they’ll break up with partners for gaining weight, some people don’t even think fat people are attractive at all or automatically call them lazy for just…existing. All that projection Bc they’re scared of fatness and the idea of being fat legitimately bothers thin people (most of whom are unhealthy themselves) to the point where they oppress and bully fat people for having the audacity to EXIST
like just read these replies and tell me western society doesn’t hate fat people
