Albert CardonaMore alarming: "about half of all CO2 from burning fossil fuels ever emitted was emitted over the last two decades or so" https://albert.rierol.net/tell/20210407_two_centuries_of_global_warming_warnings.html (and also: "Half of all plastics ever made were produced in the last 13 years leading to 2017".)
In other words, it's us, our very lifestyle, that contributed most of the damage. Not the people from the 50s, or the 60s, or the 70s, not even those of the 80s. But us, over the last two decades.
Hanna Ritchie runs the numbers: https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions
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