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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

The last time the climate changed this much it spelled the end of hereditary monarchies.

Maybe this one will end capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Just how the Black death was great for the working class. The plague didn't discriminate. So the guilds collapsed and regular people could take up professions exclusive they was locked out of earlier.

Best thing that happened for reform was the black death. Almost as if toppling the social elite is net positive for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Maybe this one will end capitalism.

Maybe but I get the impression the next iteration will be worse, not better - an authoritarian slave state dressed up as socialism or something. You don't need money to be poor after all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

The Prophecies have foretold it will be like Star Trek and it is our job to fulfill them.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

Dream on