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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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Eating Meat Is Bad for Climate Change, and Here Are All the Studies That Prove It (sentientmedia.org)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Don't worry, we're all gonna starve. The rich are making sure of it. It'd really only take one of the super rich to choose to do good instead of evil and literally save the whole world, but humans, evidently, just don't make good people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm just just curious, what do you think Elon Musk(or whoever is the richest person in the world at this point) could do to save the whole world?

[–] minibyte 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Socialism but with more steps, more than likely.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

And itd still be a drop in the bucket compared to government spending.

Also,not everything can be solved by throwing money at it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Isn't it impossible for a Capitalist to individually transition to Socialism, no matter how powerful, unless they had an economic monopoly? They could transition their own businesses to worker self-management and ownership, but that's it.