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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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[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 36 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (18 children)

Capitalism won’t allow us any means to solve the climate crisis unless their motives for profit somehow magically aligned with the climate motive.

Capitalism is killing us all. And they’re happily watching us fight amongst ourselves over our own “carbon footprint.”

Break out the guillotines, burn down the banks, upend the system. We don’t have any more time for this shit.

[–] Pizza_Rat@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Or maybe we could work a unified coalition of voters around the implementation of a carbon tax, incremented over a period of years, to align those incentives?

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Lets give the oligarchs another 200 tears. Surely they’ll do the right thing.

Wake the fuck up. This system is rotten to the bones. Our freedom exists as long as it is in line with their profit. Smoke and fucking mirrors.

[–] AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml -3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

VOOOOTE HARDER I'M SOOO VOOOOTING NOW

Fucking idealistic bullshit, burn the system

[–] Womble@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Because burning down the system and starting from scratch has such a great track record and certainly isnt idealistic...

[–] AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

Actually yes, most of the modern world you're living in was made with violent change

[–] wildcherry@slrpnk.net 1 points 8 months ago

Burning down the system is starting from scratch is the reason why you can even vote in the first place.

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