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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] 2 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

I get the argument he’s making, but the comparison between individual emissions, even when taken in large groups, and corporate emissions are so lopsided that these arguments always strike me as underhanded false equivalencies.

For example, Google emitted 14.31 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2023, while an individual American averaged around 13.8 metric tons of carbon dioxide during the same time period. That’s more than an order of magnitude if I’m doing my math right. Sure, individuals can always do better, but even collective action won’t come close to a single corporation’s emissions. Lay the blame where it actually belongs.

[–] spidermanchild 0 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

How many times did you ping Google servers today? AI bullshit aside, this is still on us for using all of their services. Yes they need to find a way to deliver their services sustainably but it's our job to regulate them and force the issue and not just hope corpos do the right thing (they won't).

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

I stopped using google years ago, but my adblock shows that google servers get pinged when browsing the web. Same for AWS, there is no way to avoid it without completely going offline.

[–] spidermanchild 2 points 2 weeks ago

That's fair, I was more referring to the casual internet use so many folks enjoy (YouTube, maps, search for literally everything, all the apps and updates, etc). Denying them revenue through ad blockers and avoiding their direct services gets you pretty close though.

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