They want you to need them. If you don’t need them, you might be thinking independently. You might not go along with it when they want you to do unreasonable things.

I’m confused, did it SMASH or did it crawl?

The metric of per kg of product, while entirely fair, can be a bit misleading when it comes to making high impact decisions in your life. The switching to tea example is a good one to criticize because on this chart coffee is quite high up there, but I consume only 15g of coffee a day, compared to probably close to a kg of meat, egg, and dairy. Eliminating coffee would not be a high climate impact decision.

From your own source on “true” unemployment, it’s the lowest it has been since they started calculating it. It peaked in 09 at 35% and again in COVID, but all through the early 00s it was between 28% and 30%.

You can’t use that number as evidence we “already crashed”, because as we’ve seen in other actual crashes it spikes up to 35%.