[RD] Daily Graphs and Charts II: Another 10,000 to come.

[PhroX]

Mum is a deodorant? Or am I being wooshed?

Yep. In fact, according to wiki it was the first commercial one

 

[Aiken_Drumn]

Yep. In fact, according to wiki it was the first commercial one

Ah, bit before my time.

Never worn deodorant.. I seem to be one of the lucky few that doesn't sweat or smell much.

 

[Arwon]

It's Australian census data release time!

Christianity finally under 50%. More detail:

The majority of us were either born overseas or have at least one parent born overseas:

Most spoken languages other than English:

And countries of birth:

 

[Samson]

Source

 

[The_J]

okay, seems we really should stop eating meat. I wished I could easily do it.

 

[Arakhor]

Cut out the red meat and stick to white meat only. That's already a big difference.

 

[Samson]

Cut out the red meat and stick to white meat only. That's already a big difference.

Those are really poorly defined terms. The core difference is ruminants or not, but even then there are big differences about where it comes from and what bit.

Arabs think democracy is bad for the economy. This is counter to the prevailing consensus for the last few hundred years, but the way things are going one can see why.

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[The_J]

The more chaos and poverty in the country, the more the people lean to strong leaders. Not much surprise actually.

(and while the source is the Arab Barometer, it would be interesting to have Turkey and Iran for comparison)

 

[Grendeldef]

okay, seems we really should stop eating meat. I wished I could easily do it.

Cut out the red meat and stick to white meat only. That's already a big difference.

Perhaps this as well and eventually it'll prolly happen but from this pov keeping pet dogs & other carnivores is the most stupid thing to do.

 

[Arwon]

Chart from the Australian Energy Market Operator's Integrated System Plan which show renewable generation is about to skyrocket in the national grid (which covers Adelaide to Tasmania to north Queensland but excludes the north and west). This is a fairly sober planning document about what the people who run the grid expect to happen based on observed trends.

These are the scenarios they mapped, government/NGOs/business/analysts etc all said they think the Step Change is the most likely path. The renewable share of electricity generation was under 20% as recently as 2018, is now about 32% as of 2022, and is expected to get as high as 83% in a decade. Even in the low scenarios it reaches well above 60%.

Pretty much all countries above 60% renewable generation right now are doing it with heavy amounts of hydro, the "new" renewables leaders are more in the 40% or 50% range. So this suggests to me a lot of places are about to have a fairly rapid escalation in renewables penetration.

 

[Samson]

Nutritional and environmental impacts of foodstuffs. I am not convinced by their definition of "Nutrition Impact Score", chocolate has some nutritional value.

Source

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[The_J]

I'm mostly surprised here by the difference between coffee/tea and sodas/cola. I guess the land use must be the main impacting factor.

 

[Samson]

Coffee is particularly bad, from here:

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[Paul in Saudi]

Let me see if I still know how to post a chart.

 

[Samson]

Couple from nature today:

 

[Samson]

Source

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East Asia has been gripped by an unprecedented rise in myopia, also known as short-sightedness. Sixty years ago, 10–20% of the Chinese population was short-sighted. Today, up to 90% of teenagers and young adults are. In Seoul, a whopping 96.5% of 19-year-old men are short-sighted.

Other parts of the world have also seen a dramatic increase in the condition, which now affects around half of young adults in the United States and Europe — double the prevalence of half a century ago. By some estimates, one-third of the world's population — 2.5 billion people — could be affected by short-sightedness by the end of this decade. “We are going down the path of having a myopia epidemic,” says Padmaja Sankaridurg, head of the myopia programme at the Brien Holden Vision Institute in Sydney, Australia.

 

[Narz]

Yeah we're not evolved to look @ screens all day.

If we don't use our ability to look beyond 12 inches from our faces we lose it

 

[Hygro]

my eyesight got better as an uber driver and worse switching to computers

 

[Arakhor]

Childhood myopia has been suggested to be linked to getting sufficient sunlight. I read that if you stay indoors too much as a child, some enzyme or other fails to shut off and the eyeball continues to grow, making you somewhat more short-sighted than you would otherwise have been.

There's a separate hypothesis that constant screen use can train your eyes to be more short-sighted, by constantly focussing nearby, but this can easily be circumvented by taking regular breaks to look at the scenery (and other medium to long range tasks).

 

[Samson]

Empirically grounded technology forecasts and the energy transition

Compared to continuing with a fossil fuel-based system, a rapid green energy transition will likely result in overall net savings of many trillions of dollars—even without accounting for climate damages or co-benefits of climate policy.​

I think this is a great paper, that is worth a skim from anyone interested.

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