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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] 3 points 1 year ago

The prisoners dilemma seems an appropriate analogy. Business doesn’t want to budge first and commit to a giant investment that isn’t profit driven. It commits then to us and other businesses can eat their lunch while they sacrifice profit to help society. Government doesn’t want to move first and drive business or if the county. And selfish people are just going to be selfish.

You got what I was driving at. I don't even think that it takes people being particularly selfish either. I think it just takes human nature. Most people want to have nice things and very few want to be the first or only one to make a sacrifice. So people in general are involved in this prisoner's dilemma too, along with business, government, and media. It's like a 4-way prisoner's dilemma from hell.

For your edit comments, just keep living by your principles. Share with others who want to listen, but don’t force anyone. Just be you. If you’re reading things like this out of curiosity, you’re on the right side of things already.

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