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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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[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fossil fuels corps don't care. The next quarter is what they care about

[–] LostWon@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago

Indeed, it seems like campaign finance reform would be a better start than to pray for fossil fuel and other industries to develop a a conscience.

I'd like to think we can all agree across the political spectrum that we need to find a way for politicians to represent the interests of citizens rather than just ruling over us.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Unless the actual New York Stock Exchange is on fire and big piles of money are burning, corporations and companies don't care about what happening to the world, the environment or the people.

[–] Commiunism@lemmy.wtf 15 points 1 year ago

Yeah they can ignore them, but in a different way - notice how the conservative and even some liberal types went from denying climate change so there shouldn't be any action taken to acknowledging climate change but refusing to do anything because "it's not a big deal" or whatever to nowadays fully acknowledging climate change but saying that it's too late for any sort of action to be taken.

[–] admiralteal@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They can definitely afford it. They are extreme wealthy and growing moreso with every molecule extracted. If we want to make it so they "can't afford it", we need to change the societal paradigm and start holding them responsible for all damages past and future in civil and criminal courts.

Because it's the rest of us who can't afford it.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Direct action is the only way.

It will always be profitable until we make it cost something.

Someone owns the pipelines and they have published addresses.

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 5 points 1 year ago

They still do.

[–] jlow@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

WITTNESS THEM!!

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

... ok, but fuck FT.

And it's the stakeholders (we all) that can't afford not to undergo a quick (and as brutal as necessary) economy revolution.