14 DAY TRIAL // Towards the end of September, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change announced that, unless carbon emissions are kept below 840 gigatons by the end of this century, global warming would not be limited to below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit).
As reported at that time, human society has already released some 531 gigatons into the atmosphere. So things don't really seem to be working in our favor.
The guy in the video above uses Legos to explain where these 531 gigatons of carbon emissions come from. Apparently, most of them, i.e. 175 gigatons, are the result of burning coal and biomass.
An impressive 130 comes from using oil as an energy source, whereas natural gas emissions are to blame for another 15 gigatons.
Cement production accounts for another 15 gigatons, and 160 gigatons are the result of land use.
By the looks of it, it will only take about 22 more years for human society to exhaust its carbon budget. Unless measures to keep this from happening are implemented as soon as possible, that is.