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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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Cycling like the Dutch would slash the world’s carbon footprint (www.euronews.com)
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Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6 kilometres each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, the study suggests, annual global carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes.

This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.

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[–] lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 15 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Or - we could just say it’s illegal for these billionaire crybaby warcrime shitheads to fly like they do. Same emissions savings, and the world gets infinitely better.

[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

redesigning cities to be more bikeable (and less car centric) would have an infinitely better effect on your quality of life than stopping billionaires from using private jets tbh

not that we shouldn’t do both, obviously. we should prevent billionaires from existing in the first place even

[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

[–] Xanvial@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Why is it always Taylor Swift and not like other top 100 billionaires which I'm pretty sure use way more than her

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 hours ago
  • Woman
  • Celebrity
  • Not a Nazi

So she's a target