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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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How oil companies put the responsibility for climate change on consumers (theconversation.com)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, fine. We'll likely need oil for lubrication for a long time, but my next car will be electric, and we're getting solar over this and the next year. They'll lose my contributions to their coffers, because fuck them.

They should be held accountable, but I'm not going to hem and haw waiting for them to do the right thing (or for the governments to get off their collective assess and do something about it).

[–] projectd 6 points 1 year ago

Exactly, good for you. As individuals, we can choose to make things better, be a part of the solution, and have a big collective impact by making changes.

Bonus points are that it sends a signal to others which amplifies the impact, and also reduces the power of those large organisations who do bad, since our better actions often feed them less money.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

We have vegetable oil for example and algaes can produce oil as well. So we do not need to dig for fossil fuel, there are alternatives for lubriaction and similar problems, were oil is very much needed.