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.
Oxfam International released in October that looked at 50 of the richest people in the world and their carbon footprint. In it, they found that these people release more carbon through private jets, yachts and investments in a year than the average person does in their entire life.
Fuck them.
Elon Musk produces roughly 5,497 tonnes of CO2 per year, equivalent to 834 years' worth of emissions for the average person, or 5,437 years' worth for someone in the poorest 50 per cent.
Per year. And Musky has been himself for decades.
One of Elon's private flights can easily produce as much CO2 as the average US inhabitant does in a whole year.
When it comes to aviation in general — something only a small share of the world's population takes part in — it contributes roughly 2.5 per cent of all CO2 emissions and has thus far contributed to roughly four per cent of global warming.
haha
"Ignore the 892 Mt CO2, focus on the 15.6 Mt CO2!"
(from the paper https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01775-z )
also this:
Global commercial aviation is estimated to have emitted 892–936 Mt carbon dioxide (CO2) in 20191,2,3 and is responsible for about 4% of global net anthropogenic effective radiative forcing4,5.
(first paragraph of the text)
The invention of airplanes was a mistake that needs to be reversed urgently.