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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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White House Announces Strategy to Keep Edible Food Out of Landfills (www.nytimes.com)
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This is a small but important part of what needs doing

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[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Compost with weekly pick up while garbage is picked up every 2 weeks seems to be effective in my area. Since food waste smells quickly in the regular garbage most people use the compost to get it gone faster.

Others will complain about how stupid the city is wasting thier tax dollars and failing to collect their piling up stinky garbage all while refusing to recycle or compost any of their garbage.