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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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Nike Pledged to Shrink Its Carbon Footprint. It Just Slashed the Staff Charged With Making That Happen. (www.propublica.org)
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[–] Quill7513 2 points 4 months ago

Sorry. Didn't meant to make it sound like we can't stop climate change. I more meant to stop climate change we need to stop big corporations. My optimism for the future is rooted in a resolve that our future can't look like our present. There's no quick fixes, no silver bullets, no easy solves. Climate change is a result if colonialism and if we want to put a stop to it or even reverse it we have to dismantle the idea that its fine for a fortune 500 company to treat everyone they interact with horribly and cover up how detrimental they are