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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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Human Brains Aren't Wired to Fight Climate Change | Society knows it’s doing things that will do immense harm to the environment for many generations to come. So why can’t it change? We like donuts (www.bloomberg.com)
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[–] WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

'We' can't address climate change because the global elite are dependent on the profits from harming the environment to fill their money banks, and it turns out they have all the power.

I do not need to rewire my brain, I need to build power structure so that I can eat the rich w/ that donut

[–] crystal@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Do you not believe that in a functioning democracy, such as some found in europe, you could simply vote to address climate change?

I live in Germany. People here could easily vote to "eat the rich" and to reduce emissions. But they don't, and they won't. Voluntarily.

[–] WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

In the usa we did vote for AL gore, who campaigned pretty much solely on stopping climate change.

When it became clear gore would win, the Supreme Court stopped counting ballots and gave the win to Bush, an oil tycoon who went to war for oil. Later Kavanaugh, who worked the case for Bush, was given a lifetime appointment to the same court for their effective cronyism

So yes, the global elite are the reason here.

[–] crystal@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

When saying "global elite", are you refering specifically to the USA elite?

[–] WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The global elite buy the USA politicians. They are for sale internationally

In Bush's case, the family is owned by the Saudis. And the Saudis couldn't have the USA president going after oil.

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