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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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Shoppers say they want sustainable goods, but won't pay more (www.reuters.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anyone else absolutely sick of seeing every product now coming in multipacks of smaller packages? You want a bag of chips? How about one big bag and 8 tiny bags to throw in the garbage? Even Pringles I saw had an 6 or 8 pack of individual little plastic cups. It's so much fucking waste material for nothing! Starbucks won't give my fiance a straw for her drink but these companies are allowed to do this shit?

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your mind will be blown when you realize that often it is the package that costs more to produce than what's in it. Basically the company is selling you packaging... and suddenly it starts making sense in a perverse way.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That and I've noticed that in several instances comparing a large bag of the product to a multipack saves you money and gets you more product. The example I have right in front of me is Hello Panda, the little cookie things. The multipack is a total of 6oz of cookies, but the bag is 7oz; the bag is a whole dollar cheaper than the multipack.