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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] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be clear though, I don't shill for big oil.

Be careful you don't end up doing it by accident. When climate change denial stopped being effective, they switched to "Oops, looks like it was real all along but we've fucked it now anyway so go buy a truck".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I am definitely not outright encouraging people to go out and hedonistically purchase products. I do however, think that has been people's logical reactions to the grim realities and the existential crises that the presentation of seemingly insurmountable hurdles of the climate crisis.

There are some hopeful glimmers, I'll admit. But an expression of despair isn't always needed to have one of two responses. Most of the time I hear either "We cant do anything to solve it, so let's not talk about it." Or "That's not helpful rhetoric, so let's not talk about it and only talk about poasible solutions."

Personally I find both of these responses to be a form of depression stigma. I get that if the worst effects of climate change are capable of being addressed if we take action now, then there isn't time to ”wallow in depression," but if you're like me and truly believe that the hand has already been dealt and the game is over, then the point is moot, and climate despair is a logical and possibly even healthy response.

Again, not advocating making the problem worse, just lamenting humanity having apparently lost a battle against it's own myopic view of their place in the universe.