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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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The Myth of Plastic Recycling. (slrpnk.net)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly if it was up to me I'd just ban plastic flat out unless you got some kind of "this is actually really important and NEEDS to be made of plastic" cert

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

There are tons of single-use plastic medical supplies - syringes, wrappers, etc.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago

Would you say that those things are actually really important and NEED to be made of plastic? I wonder if Aeri would account for that possibility