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:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
I would've thought that near all of Australia burning in 2019 would've been a big enough wake up call, but here we are, five years later, and now everything is on fire.
I gave up hope a while ago that we'll do anything significant in time for it to matter. I used to be pretty optimistic but this is the topic that changed that. I'm not exactly a doomer but I'm definitely much more jaded and cynical than I used to be.
Fucking same man.
Nothing will wake us up - move us to make large scale changes - while greed and selfishness are a thing.
I am sure we won't get out of this.
Edit: just read this and felt it fits here. Cost of going green sparks backlash from Europe's voters
I am sure we won't get out of this.
You're in good company with that line of thinking
DANIEL KAHNEMAN is not hopeful. “I am very sorry,” he told me, “but I am deeply pessimistic. I really see no path to success on climate change.”
Kahneman’s views are widely shared by cognitive psychologists. As Daniel Gilbert of Harvard University says: “A psychologist could barely dream up a better scenario for paralysis.”
Thay said, I keep my emisisons low, vote green, but plan for the worst while hoping for the best.
LoL yeah. People getting upset because has prices are inconvenient.
Wait till they see what's around the corner with this ecological disaster. Gas prices will be the least of their worry.
Can't grow crops when the whole soil is too dry and the air is too hot to grow anything. Or when there's flash floods all the time. Or extreme weather conditions and your home has been destroyed.
A lot of people wrongly though that.
Mostly the rhetoric I heard in personal conversations was conservative talking points about blaming The Greens for not allowing enough back burning and blame The Greens for not allowing nuclear.
Insee some if the same.stuoid nonses spouted in the Canadian less by conservative polticans there.
The Greens have never been in power at the state or federal level and can't draft legislation. The conservative LNP have been in power literally for decades and drafted all the legislation but here we are.
I Vote Green, me and the another 128 Australians.
There are dozens of us! Dozens!!!
A nice little chart of surface temperatures over the decades.
And by nice I mean terrible, depressing, and horrifying.
It's a lot for sure.