1.1Cartoon by Jacob Fox

2.1Smoking and cancer beliefs

Constructed by author from source: Gallup, A. and Newport, F. 2009. Gallup Poll: Public Opinion 2008. Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Incorporated

3.1Climate science beliefs

Estimated by author from multiple sources, including national surveys by the Pew Research Center, Gallup Polls on US public opinions, National Survey of American Public Opinion on Climate Change

3.2Cartoon by Jacob Fox

4.1Global CO₂ emissions: developed and developing countries

Constructed by author from data sources IPCC assessments and International Energy Agency reports

4.2Cartoon by Kallaugher, K. 2009. Climate Change Summit 2040. The Economist (November 19)

5.1Carbon budget

Adapted from McCandless, D. 2012. How many gigatons of carbon dioxide? The Information is Beautiful guide to Doha. The Guardian (December 7). Retrieved from www.theguardian.com/newsdatablog/2012/dec/07/carbon-dioxide-doha-information-beautiful

5.2Market share of zero-emission vehicles

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5.3Climate-energy policy

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5.4Connect the dots

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6.1Political support in British Columbia (Dec 2006–May 2009)

Constructed by author from data provided by Kathryn Harrison. For further details, see Harrison, K. 2010. The comparative politics of carbon taxation. Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 6 (26), 1–23

6.2Climate-energy policy: details on regulations and pricing

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6.3Contribution of California policies

Constructed by author from California Air Resources Board. Retrieved at www.arb.ca.gov/

6.4Climate policy preferences in British Columbia

Source: Rhodes, K., Axsen, J. and Jaccard, M. 2014. Does effective climate policy require well-informed citizen support? Global Environmental Change, 29, 92–104

6.5Political difficulty of climate policies

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7.1Peak oil

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7.2Sustainability challenge of resources and wastes

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7.3US oil production

Constructed by author from data source: US Energy Information Administration. 2019. US field production of crude oil: Annual data. Retrieved from www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=mcrfpus2&f=a

8.1World air transport and GDP

Constructed by author from data source: World Development Indicators database. 2017. Air transport, passengers carried and GDP (constant 2010 US$).

Retrieved from https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/dataset/world-development-indicators

8.2Bitcoin electricity consumption

Constructed by author from data sources: Digiconomist 2018. Estimated annual electricity consumption, Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index. Retrieved from https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

International Energy Agency. 2018. Table 2.6 OECD electricity consumption 1974–2006 (TWh). p.II 34 ELECTRICITY INFORMATION

8.3Cartoon by Jacob Fox

9.1True carbon offsets

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9.2Cartoon by Jacob Fox

10.1Cartoon by Jacob Fox

11.1US solar and wind prices

Created by author from multiple sources.

Wind: Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, US Department of Energy 2017. 2017 Wind Technologies Market Report data file, Figure 51. Retrieved from https://emp.lbl.gov/wind-technologies-market-report

Solar: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. 2018. Utility-Scale Solar – 2018 Edition data file, Figure 20. Retrieved from https://emp.lbl.gov/utility-scale-solar

11.2France electricity and CO₂ emissions

Created by author from: IEA and OECD statistical tables. http://stats.oecd.org/

11.3Brazil vehicles and CO₂ emissions

Created by author from: International Energy Agency

11.4Ontario electricity emissions

Created by author from: Government of Ontario. 2017. 2017 Long-term Energy Plan.

Retrieved from https://news.ontario.ca/mndmf/en/2017/10/2017-long-term-energy-plan.html

Original source: IESO, Environment Canada and Climate Change

12.1Cartoon by Scott Willis

13.1Global CO₂ emissions in 2050 reference case

Created by author from: International Energy Agency. 2017. World Energy Outlook. Paris: IEA.

US Energy Information Administration. 2017. World carbon dioxide emissions. International Energy Outlook. Washington, DC: US Energy Information Administration

13.2Guide to citizen behavior for climate success

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