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 think it's exactly the opposite. I don't think people are nearly as fearful enough or there would actually be action. We keep thinking we can capitalism our way out of this, but it's never going to work.
I want to start telling people that this is a problem now when we need to do something right now as if our hair is on fire.
Because it is.
It's not the people you have to convince ... you have to convince the billionaires to change their behaviour. They are the defacto ones that have all the power and control to influence society and government to do anything.
But they don't want to change because they might lose 2 percent of their wealth and they don't like that.
Change is scary. Terms like "Green economy" sound like a huge pile of scary change to a lot of people.
Probably would go down a lot better if it was always coupled with "Green economy will bring lots of new jobs as well as provide job and financial security for many others."
rather than energising them
Why does the author think that energising people is good?