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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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215 million hectares of forest – an area bigger than Mexico – could grow back by itself, if we can just leave it alone. (theconversation.com)
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[–] Sanctus 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thats the trick ain't it? This whole thing would fix itself if we would leave everything alone. We won't.

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

There’s just too many of us to support this level of greed and inequality.

[–] Dasus 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It's not about the amount of people when the top 10 own like 40% of everything.

But yeah, your sentence is still correct; the level of greed just comes from a tiny minority of people.

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

It is about the amount of people, at this level of greed. Everyone wants a house in the suburbs.

[–] Dasus 1 points 3 months ago

No, not everyone does.

Besides, we could probably utilise a lot of area sustainably to increase suburbs, worldwide, if we didn't live in this wageslave bullshit where only the top hogs all the money while not giving a fuck about sustainability or employee well being.

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

Is inequality actually the problem when it comes to carbon? Just as a thought exercise, if everyone on earth, or even within each county, received an equal share of GDP, I suspect emissions may increase. You'd replace the private jets with more of everything else. Inequality is a major issue for a host of other reasons though, absolutely.