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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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These Household Brands Want to Redefine What Counts as “Recyclable” (www.propublica.org)
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[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Plastic recycling is mostly a scam anyway.

It’s fucking wild that we still sell single use plastics at all, but the amount of it is simply incomprehensible.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Unreal. Can you fucknuts stop being evil and murdering the ecosystem? Or at the very least can you not fucking DOUBLE DOWN on the egregiousness of your ecocide??

[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.vg 1 points 1 week ago

You don't understand .. if it's theoretically possible to recycle such containers, then they are Platonic Forms, which means that all physical imitations of these plastic Forms are recyclable as transcendental plastic containers having the imbued property of being recyclable.