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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] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

There isn't any reason to expect near-term human extinction due to climate change.

The continuation of warming is also a human decision. One we can change.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, it’s a corporate one. And corporations like money more than they do anything else.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

All we have to do is form mobs to break into oil executives homes and beat them to death.

Two easy steps.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I get the necessity to spread a message of hope, I really do. If people start to see the cause as truly lost, the motivation to change any behavior will go down even more.

However, in these times, I find it harder and harder to keep a positive mindset about this. And I am sure I’m not the only one.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

how? Like lets say we need to get on the track of reversing the course of climate change right now, within the next 10 years at most. What is the most effective thing a nobody like me can do about it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How do you politically influence non-western-friendly regimes/countries? That's more than 2/3 of all the polution/emissions.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  • You work to make renewable energy the cheap way to do things.
  • You impose a tariff on the embedded emissions in imported goods and services.
  • You appeal to the shared interest in a habitable planet
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Good points, thanks

[–] toasteecup 1 points 1 year ago

Not much that can be done there, but it's like a wildfire. Throwing more fire at it doesn't help any.