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Denial is over. Climate change is happening. But why do we still act like it's not?
(theconversation.com)
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:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
I believe it is essential to distinguish between "When are we gonna learn?" when talking about these points. It is not that "we didn't learn"; we who understand or are very attentive to the ecological issues are a group of people doing something. Hence, the greens, in general, need to understand politics.
The job of ecologism is only effective if you address root causes (there is a joke about trees over here). Exploiting non-renewable resources is not a choice made by individuals but rather a result of the societal structures that dictate our actions. Currently, those structures are hierarchical.
So I'd like to use this occasion to invite my fellow ecologists and solarpunks to be interested in that spiky thing called "Politics." We must address issues to push our creative minds to build the future.