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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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In early 2029, Earth will likely lock into breaching key warming threshold, scientists calculate (apnews.com)
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The more I see reports like this the more, hopeless I feel. Sometimes, I get to a point where I'm not even depressed but deeply numb by the catastrophe that is happening. Mass insanity we see, mass insanity.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We better get to it.

Business as usual will more than likely make WW2 look like a trip to your favorite vacation spots.

The things the we can't do that crowd are worried about will not matter because those things will no longer exist. This will destabilize or collapse every nation on earth.

The can do right now things aren't even huge sacrifices. They will actually save you money:

  • Eat less beef
  • Drive less
  • Cut food faster (eat your leftovers)
  • Buy less stuff
  • Adjust your thermostat

Those things aren't going to come close to fixing everything, but they buy valuable time for big changes that take time to implement like renewable energy to happen.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In other words: Eat more plant based:

Drive Less:

Cut food faster:

Buy Less Stuff:

No sense in being a doomer when we can at least have a sliver of personal agency. (Of course, large-scale and policy-driven changes will make the most impact)

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

My knee jerk reaction to this has always been to say that these individual actions are inconsequential compared to what mega corporations and multinational companies are doing to pump the majority of pollution into our environment.

But I no longer think that .... I think you are correct.

If we all collectively did this ... If we all or the majority of us followed through with everything you suggested, it would have a major effect with the economy ... if it has an effect on the economy it would affect corporations ... and if it affects corporations, they lose power and are forced to produce less or even die off.

Corporations exist because of our small collective contributions ... the things we buy, the services we purchase, the things we consume ... if we collectively stop doing all that or cut it down significantly, it would starve the beast. In an economy of perpetual growth, even just a tiny dip caused by less consumption would be enough to destabilize a major corporation.

If we all just simply bought less or just ate less .... it would kill off so many useless corporations.

I've come around to your logic and I eat less, consume less and completely avoid fast food.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/walmartdeals

i think your first line is the most correct. you can prove me wrong by convincing everyone in that facebook group that actually they should do what you said.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I don't have any power over anyone, nor do I want to ... I only have power over myself