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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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[–] demesisx@infosec.pub 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you’ve ever read Confessions of an Economic Hitman, it’s quite clear that the World Bank itself should be held culpable for that climate loss.

I’ll attempt to explain it in blurb form: They (private US corporations) would go into countries and approach their leader about “updating their country’s infrastructure” using US companies like Texaco. If the leader refused, our CIA would assasinate or coup them. If the leader agreed, their country would take out MASSIVE loans from the world bank that would be impossible for that country to ever pay back, effectively giving the western world complete financial control over this country (a puppet government). The author of book specifically talks about doing this in Panama and Indonesia and the misgivings he began to feel, working to create these debts and violently crushing the populist leaders that got in their way.

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago

They changed the voting structure of the World Bank in 2010 to give poorer countries more votes and that has somewhat improved things. It is still a very US centric institution thou. Hence developing countries not wanting that.

The US is just opposed to pay any sort of reparations.