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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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Oil bosses call phasing out fossil fuels a ‘fantasy’ – but an international agreement is plausible (theconversation.com)
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[–] sinkingship@mander.xyz 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You're not wrong and my comment is supposed to be jokingly.

I'm sure you used your example to show how easy it is, it just sounds so terribly distopian. Your point could have been an optimistic outlook into a different future but:

Why? Why of all things that can be used to turn an alternator, why the heck does it have to be child labor?

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I took it to mean "even a child could do it!" rather than "we could make children do this."

[–] sinkingship@mander.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

All good mate! xD

I just thought it funny sounding, but understood what you wanted to say.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I could have said we put a dog in a treadmill to do it, like how we used to rotate meat on spits. But in my head I was thinking more of a parent using the electricity to do something and getting their kid to turn the crank.