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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] 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

When do we as a society say that a corporation has done so much damage they need to be taken a apart.

When do the execs that hid this information get prosecuted for destroying the future of our children?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

When we as a society realize the governments we've made are inadequate and do things sans government approval. Not advocating for anything that is distasteful to any neolib moderation reading, of course.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Are you sure we can't just vote harder somehow? Like, vote, but really really mean it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

The answer is obviously with the markets.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There's an idea! Or maybe we shouldn't vote. They might be on to us. Here's the plan, we don't vote then surprise sneak attack vote. They will never see it coming.

Edit: Much like my friend here. I don't understand what voting is.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Of course. Because as we know, every positive event in history has occurred while holding hands and respectfully requesting what was required.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

We're too fat and happy to be doing anti corporation revolutions