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by digging 634 days ago
Fun calculator. A little noisy to make its points, but "You could die right now and Shell could continue operating for 6 seconds longer with the carbon you saved" is a powerful statement.

I wasted so much energy in my most vigorous years trying to make decisions that literally don't matter at all and felt so important. I could have been building skills to influence policy instead, but the sustainability movement was bamboozled pretty hard.

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Thank you for the feedback. I'm still looking for the right tone and length since I want it to be factual and understandable yet also as concise as possible. I'll have another look to see if I can improve it.

Makes me think of adding a big quote + Tweet this element to the page. E.g:

    "I could die right now and Shell could continue operating for 6 seconds longer with the carbon I saved" 
- Tweet this

Though maybe a bit too on the nose haha.