Moodboard/music: "Fossil fuel use, emissions hit records in 2023, report says" (Reuters) vs "Global Carbon Project: Coronavirus causes ‘record fall’ in fossil-fuel emissions in 2020" (GCP) . And Everyone's favourite misanthropic death metal band 'Cattle Decapitation', with their 2020 song "Bring Back the PLague"

 

Humanity after the COVID-19 pandemic went backwards.  You can't blame nature forever.  Is it Apophenia or just plain stupidity?  Or both?

"Fossil fuel use, emissions hit records in 2023, report says" (Reuters. 20/06/2024)

"Global Carbon Project: Coronavirus causes ‘record fall’ in fossil-fuel emissions in 2020" (Global Carbon Project. 11/12/2020)