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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Wow. Shocker. Capitalism isn't so easily reformable toward sustainability. I don't understand why more democrats, like the ones who have been up until now relying on the sentiment of large financial institutions and corporations to finish the job of addressing climate change, don't get their head in the game and realize how eco-unfriendly so much of capitalism is, and, depending on one's definition of capitalism, how eco-unfriendly all of capitalism may be. I think some of them have developed a greater love for their white picket fence-esque life as marketed to them in real time than for understanding the impact of scientific information about climate change on the life of the planet including their own per an authentic scientific understanding - because the latter starts to look more socialist by almost every definition of socialism.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

the moment you realize the most pro environmental friendly nations and the nations who are the reason you even know climate change is happening are all capitalist. Meanwhile the communist ones are some of the worst polluters.

You need to realize you are an dumb american and your shithole country and politics are not the same as how other countries run their business. Stop projecting.