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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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2023 smashes record for world’s hottest year by huge margin | Rapid reduction in fossil fuel burning urgently needed to preserve liveable conditions, say scientists, as climate damage deepens (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Yeah but our economy?

I cared. I no longer do, I'm going to enjoy life for as long as we're able to live, may we soon all die from hunger, I guess.

I mean, what's the alternative? I really can't do anything about it and actual solutions will require changing how humanity lives, forever, and it will literally take us centuries to fix this, even if tomorrow magically we change everything. Doesn't matter, nobody alive today will see the world environment how it was 2 centuries ago before the industrial revolution.

And again, that is best and magical case. Reality? Those in charge don't care, won't do anything, will actively actually make it even worse if it gets them money and humanity doesn't want to change car centric cites and is all whooed by electric cars that won't solve the actual problem.

So do enjoy everyone, while we still can.

[–] LilNaib 1 points 10 months ago

You're not responsible for the whole world but you are responsible for your own actions.

[–] silence7 1 points 10 months ago

Nobody is using equipment which lasts for centuries. This means we can get the world economy off fossil fuels on a timescale of decades, not centuries.

The super-fast version of that looks like:

  • generate electricity without burning stuff
  • electrify everything we can
  • stop doing the things we can't

The IPCC has a detailed chart showing the short-term parts of that

[–] LifeOfChance@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago

You nailed exactly how I feel. Those of us just trying to make it day to day can't be the only ones trying to do anything when a corporation kills the planet equivalent to a billion people polluting. Someone who accidentally spills oil in the driveway gets in more trouble than a company dumping millions of gallons into the ocean.