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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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Rich countries ‘trap’ poor nations into relying on fossil fuels (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Basicly these countries are in massive debt and have to repay their loans. The only realistic way of doing it is to extract fossil fuels.

Also having too much debt makes renewable investment less attractive. Generally speaking most green technologies are expensive in the begining and then make a good profit. Like you first have to pay for installig solar panels, but then they are nearly free to run. However fossil fuels are cheap to built initially, but then are expensive to operate due to fuel costs. If your country is in massive debt, it becomes much harder to make the inital investment into fossil fuels. Argentina for example should really be able to invest a lot into renewables as a relativly wealthy country. However bad financial policy has made that nearly impossible.