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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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Canadian PM Mark Carney’s climate inaction is at odds with his awareness of climate change’s existential threat (theconversation.com)
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[–] Redacted@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Same here (UK). It's the prisoners' dilemma and one of the main reasons we're not going to solve this before modern civilisation as we know it collapses.

What's the point in tanking your own economy if other countries aren't following suit? Not exactly a vote winner is it.

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Change is a huge boost for an economy. It pushes research, innovation, infrastructure, investment in new things. The belief that responsible change is harmful is a falacy that's pushed by the powers that don't want change.

[–] Redacted@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Change does not inheritantly boost an economy. If you look into what is propping up many western markets it's the AI bubble and guess what, that requires even more energy that we're currently using.

It's not a falacy, it would hurt their bottom line which is all they (and a large number of regular folk if we're honest) care about.

Quite simply profits cannot keep increasing if we are to solve the issue in time. We'd need to fundamentally change our way of living on a global scale. How exactly are you going to convince the powers that be that's a good idea?