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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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What job could I get? (lemm.ee)
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I'm an adult considering a change of career. I have no relevant education or experience. I'm at least an hour away from anywhere that could be considered a major city and would not like to move. My only requirements are that I am actively helping our ecosystem thrive and I'm not dirt poor. What's a position I could reasonably obtain?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Farming?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

That's seasonal work around here. But is that helping the ecosystem? I realize how much it hurts is dependent on the farm in question, but is there a way to farm that actually counters what humans do against the environment?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Look for organic or community supported agriculture (CSA) farms. In general, you need someone with a lot of battle-tested knowledge there though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You can absolutely farm in a sustainable way, wrecking the environment for profit really only came about when mechanised farming / large machinery / giant monocultures of herbicide-resistant patented seed became a thing in the last 100 years or so

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Aristotle and Plato supposedly already complained about deforestation. Degradation of the biosphere (who extinct the European Elephant?) is old.