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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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Why personal climate action matters – according to experts (theconversation.com)
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Your choices do not exist in a vacuum. Earth is an interconnected community of living and non-living things says ethicist Patrick Effiong Ben of the University of Manchester. African philosophers like Jonathan Chimakonam and Aïda Terblanché-Greeff have a helpful concept for thinking through the weightiness of your decisions: complementarity.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Totally, individuals contribute to the problem, no disagreement there. I’ve tried to limit how much I use google (mostly for other reasons, but climate impact is one), but I’ve also repeatedly called my congresspeople and asked them to proactively regulate the tech industry and to divest from fossil fuel companies and to stop all drilling domestically. The corporations will never do the right thing on their own, which is kind of the point. Since the systems are set up to excuse bad behavior from the biggest polluters, who do disproportionately more damage than any single person or group of people, blaming individuals is usually a red herring to offset the real responsible parties.