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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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More people care about climate change than you think | The majority of people in every country support action on climate, but the public consistently underestimates this share. (ourworldindata.org)
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[โ€“] Mikufan@ani.social 12 points 8 months ago (11 children)

There is a difference between not caring about it and still wanting to hold your living standard... We would need to sacrifice a significant amount of living standard to stop it right now, most people support doing something, but not that.

With how its going we will at best soften the impact a little.

[โ€“] exocrinous@startrek.website 8 points 8 months ago

We would need to sacrifice a significant amount of living standard to stop it right now,

No we wouldn't. Tax the rich and use the money to pay for green energy infrastructure, public transit, and denser housing. Boom, instant increase in jobs, transport options, and quality of life once the new walkable housing is done.

Tackling climate change is easy and it will make our lives better.

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