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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] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

permaculture – food forest with an eye towards market garden – regenerate your land, feed your family, and sell the excess at your local farmers’ market

EDIT: side benefit, there’s a direct connection between getting your hands dirty and mental health

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

I would need to own a decent plot of land to get that started. That and historically I have a pretty brown thumb.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Same here but once I actually put some care and love into a bunch of planters I bought, green thumbs grew on me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

This is what I'm trying to get into. But only because I'm REALLY into it. Growing things requires learning which means doing things wrong, which means killing things. I've killed more plants than I have successfully raised. But I've learned a ton in my free time over the years and now I have some friends with property. Been working on one for two years now and about to go start a larger project on the other side of the country.

My point is that you don't need land to "start", nor do you need to be a green thumb type. So don't let those hold you back.

You can garden anywhere. I did 2 years of gardening using free pallets and old buckets on a concrete parking spot in the city. It wasn't exactly productive but I learned key things in the process and got to eat my labor occasionally.

It's not easy, but if you're interested you can start growing things almost anywhere.