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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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Human Brains Aren't Wired to Fight Climate Change | Society knows it’s doing things that will do immense harm to the environment for many generations to come. So why can’t it change? We like donuts (www.bloomberg.com)
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[–] WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

'We' can't address climate change because the global elite are dependent on the profits from harming the environment to fill their money banks, and it turns out they have all the power.

I do not need to rewire my brain, I need to build power structure so that I can eat the rich w/ that donut

[–] dillekant 2 points 11 months ago

Right? You could use this argument for why all delayed gratification is essentially impossible (but also something people regularly do), or why it's impossible to stop murder or other illegal activity. Some sort of police force would just be impossible in an ancap world after all...

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