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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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It Isn’t Just the U.S. The Whole World Has Soured on Climate Politics | How do we think about the climate future, now that the era marked by the Paris Agreement has so utterly disappeared? (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] QuadDamage@kbin.earth 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Few reasons why it became unpopular on a political level

  • WEF types trying to shoehorn in their agendas and corrupting good ideas (walkable cities and sustainable food got turned into surveillance zones and eating the bugs)
  • Oil industry propaganda (obvious)
  • Boomers
  • Megacorps using it as an excuse to snuff out smaller competitors.

If you want to save the planet you will have to start at the local level and practice regenerative agriculture.

Polls show that voters don’t actually prioritize decarbonization and, crucially, aren’t willing to pay much to bring it about.

Axe fossil fuel subsidies and replace them with green technologies like algae fuel grown with wastewater. So much of climate activism got pigeonholed into "just use an electric car bro" and trying to sustain pointless consumerism and terrible agriculture practices.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you exclude the billionaires and everyone else manages their footprint, we'd still go to hell in a hand basket because of just how much influence the billionaires club has on the climate.

Regulate the billionaires before telling the rest of us to doing sustainable activities.

[–] QuadDamage@kbin.earth 1 points 1 week ago

Obviously