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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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Big Oil Is Pulling Out All the Stops to Block Lawsuits Demanding Accountability (truthout.org)
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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I think we should be unsurprised not because of who they are but because of the fact these corporations have the fiduciary duty to do this.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure the argument could be made that they don't have to get embroiled in politics at this level, but it's definitely something for which they can claim plausible deniability.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You could but I think focusing on individuals or groups' morals is a not a productive approach for solving this. If the system optimizes for this, it will select the people who have the right morals. It will also make people with these morals if there aren't any. We see both of these phenomena. If on the other hand we point at the system and say this is what creates this problem, and if we change it, it'll stop selecting and creating psychopaths. I think.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Fiduciary duty does not require lying or the commission of crimes.