you could make parking spots that won’t fit almost six meter long pickup trucks

I don’t think the kind of people who drive these would care how much they stick out in front (taking up space of the opposite space, or walking area) or back.

Tonnes of CO2e, averages:

 1.60 a roundtrip transatlantic flight
 2.40 one year car use
58.60 one year for every child you have

Chart, Wynes et al. 2017

Chart, Wynes et al. 2017

Scientists didn’t become pickier - they just later found that Pluto was in a belt of thousands of massive object (called the Kuiper belt), like the asteroid belt but much bigger.

When Ceres was discovered in 1801, it was thought to be a comet, later a planet, but after discovering it was one of many asteroids in the asteroid belt (which it wasn’t big enough to clear), they realized it wasn’t a planet.

When Pluto was first discovered in 1930, it was in a similar situation as Ceres and thought of as a planet, but when other Kuiper belt objects started to be discovered by 1992, they realized Pluto also wasn’t a planet.

In South Africa, the law determines that if something’s labeled “Product of South Africa” it can’t have any imported ingredients (tho the packaging can be imported).

“Produced in South Africa” can have imported ingredients - and I’ve been boycotting almost all of that because of the omnicidal carbon footprint of importing things. It’s easier in this country to live ethically tho because we can grow almost everything we need: from food to textiles; tho our energy production is some of the most unethical in the world.

“All it takes for evil to succeed, is good people to say, “it’s just business.”” - Janet Leahy, Michael Reisz

It’ll be interesting to see a character following the teachings of Jesus Christ, like

• Luke 16:13 “You cannot serve both God and money.”
• Mark 10:21 “Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor”
• Matthew 5:39 “If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.”
• Matthew 5:44 “love your enemies”

So there’s no chance the character will be a capitalist, troop-supporting, neo-Nazi. Right?