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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] 71 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (7 children)

And for what?

For that.

Lines must go up.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

society lacks a plan. wealth inequality has been going up since before 2000. but somehow, society just carried on. "if we work hard, i'm sure it will turn out alright."

the current social divide (poor/rich, not dem/rep) was predictable long ago. what do you expect? 10 or 20 years ago would have been the perfect time to question the fundamentals of society and decide where society really wants to go - to develop in the long term.

now we're here. now's the 3rd best time to figure out how society should develop in the long term. think about it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (4 children)

If only you would've been here 10 - 20 years ago to impart upon us savages this great wisdom, oh master... We were but too simple then to think such BOLD, OBVIOUSLY COMPLETELY NOVEL thoughts on our own! Alack, what woe! 🙄

Not to burst your bubble there, junior, but class (read: socioeconomic) warfare didn't just magically appear within the past couple of decades... Or centuries...

Do me a favor: Google the phrase "let them eat cake" or "proletariat" or "bourgeoisie" or... actually it might just be quicker for you to look up "world history prior to 2000" and at least skim a bit or something

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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