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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] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lol you're very hopeful. I'm old so I know those things in #1 are not real or effective. You can't influence politics or policy without having the money to lobby (bribe).

And again I do everything possible for my part. But then I look over and see a rich guy undoing it all in a day and facing no consequences and it gives me a sense of "what's the fucking point?"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That's utter nonsense; I've seen people have a pretty dramatic impact on a shoestring. Especially at the local level, where simply showing up to comment at municipal government meetings makes a real difference.

The end goal is to eventually constrain the impact the wealthiest have.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Again I could be at such a task all my life, fighting against government to help the environment for four lifetimes, and a billionaire will undo all my life's work with the snap of a finger and a location wedding for their rich friends.