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Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.

As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world.  About 1C of total warming.  Second chart:  about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability.  Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases.  About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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Black and white cartoon.  Left panel: a group blocks a road with a banner reading "No new oil | so there's a liveable planet for our children."  Right panel: A boardroom, with members of the board raising their hands.  In front of them is a chart showing planned oil extraction going well above a dashed line marked "Level beyond which there will be no livable plant for our children.

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[โ€“] DessertStorms@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Stop buying their bull shit and they will go out of business

lmfao tell me you don't know shit about how capitalism works without saying you don't know shit about how capitalism works.

The problem with your brand of bullshit is that it isn't just ignorant, but as I said before - you're actively playing for the rich and powerful by joining in with their bullshit distraction and shifting of responsibility so that they can keep hoarding and spending more money that you could possibly even fathom.

You're not just being a part of the problem for the rest of us, which you clearly don't care about, but you're also shooting yourself in the foot, which you probably can't feel because you're too busy licking boot.

Try educating yourself instead:

https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2022/01/31/climate-change-fossil-fuel-industry-individual-responsibility

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/30/capitalism-is-killing-the-planet-its-time-to-stop-buying-into-our-own-destruction

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/10/individuals-climate-crisis-government-planet-priority

[โ€“] robinm@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

There is no need for personnal attacks when someone is wrong.