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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€“] UnculturedSwine 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is if you literally can only afford the necessities. It does come off a bit condescending, yes. I'm the US, we have corporations that are literally making record profits by using inflation and sustainable sourcing as an excuse to increase the price of products far above the cost increase and then we figure out after the fact that their pledges to sustainability are worth fuck all. It doesn't help the fact that we have literal "food deserts" where the nearest grocery store is over an hour away and the only closer options you have are convenience stores and fast food. Try voting with your wallet in one of those places.

[โ€“] Linus_Torvalds 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you for giving me your perspective, I feel somewhat bad now for my comments..