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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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The Sierra Club Embraced Social Justice. Then It Tore Itself Apart. (www.nytimes.com)
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The environmental group gave up its singular focus on climate change for a broader agenda. The ensuing internal strife left it weakened as it takes on the Trump administration.

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[โ€“] Lumisal@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ecofash?

[โ€“] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 days ago

Ecofascism. If they said the quiet part out loud it would sound like "Climate change is going to be disastrous so we need to protect [in-group] against its consequences, regardless of the cost to others".

An obvious example is closing borders to climate refugees; but it can also be slowing down the improvement of living standards among the poor to curb global emissions; financially or culturally discouraging childbirth among the outgroup; revoking or denying access to human rights because providing them would be too polluting; deafening silence around luxuries of the in-group like the meat industry, cars, and airplanes compared to loud complaints about basic necessities for the out-group like electricity, construction, and goods transport; etc.

Much of the western world's climate change policy is informed by ecofascism, because fascism is the natural behavior of liberals that don't want to give up privileges, and the west doesn't want to admit that they only have half the population of India and only deserve to pollute proportionally.