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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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[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Some people pay extra to not torture animals.

[–] zurchpet@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Should be the other way around. People should pay more to eat a tortured animal.

[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.vg 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah... on a black market while getting E.coli, Salmonella and tape worms.

[–] DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

I have a hard time believing meat alternatives are more expensive to produce, but I'm open to being educated on the matter. Paying more money to not torture animals sounds noble at the surface level, but is ultimately just another corporate scam if it otherwise has cheaper production costs. I've found recipes online for making meatless burgers which mostly include very basic vegetable ingredients. I'm sure big companies like Beyond and Impossible add a bunch of filler junk to their products though.