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by throwaway3b03 337 days ago
For comparison, a small ICE car produces around 100g of CO2/km, so with the same carbon budget you could drive 10km.
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That comparison makes no sense because the ICE car is releasing carbon taken (mostly) from petroleum while the human is releasing carbon taken (mostly) from the atmosphere via plants and animals.
Well, years ago, I was running my indirectly injected diesel straight off sunflower oil, so that was plant based too.

But your point is valid. Comparison is still useful for getting a grasp of the quantities involved.

But only after you discard your mortal flash and upload your mind to a shiny Tesla-cloud. At which point you can probably afford to not care much about all the carbon problems anyway.