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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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Americans misunderstand their contribution to deteriorating environment (arstechnica.com)
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I imagine there are many US people living in places with 100+ degree days for months in a row -- Places which seldom got above 90 a half-century ago ... who do not understand that driving a car with AC to a home with AC is making matters worse.

The situation is urgent, yet we keep hearing 2060 2050 2040 2030 deadlines as if a fix could somehow be delivered by then . BUT: If we got to zero -tomorrow- , it'd stay as it already is for centuries. Every day without HUGE changes NOW it's getting worse.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Instead, they attribute the most blame to businesses and governments of wealthy countries.

They are not. fucking. wrong.

Don't misunderstand me, do what you can yourself, because every little bit helps, and absolutely boycott them if you can...

but never forget "your personal carbon footprint" was a BP invention.

Until the big polluters are held to account, nothing you or I could do, even combined, will move the needle.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It’s a chicken and the egg problem. Most those companies would run out of buisness if the large majority of consumers made green choices.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

those consumers often can't make choices due to being coerced by their economic circumstances

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Very true. As someone on 8k a year, I can very much relate.

However, people making enough money too have no excuse.

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