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:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
69% of the global population expresses a willingness to contribute 1% of their personal income
Giving money is easing. Not eating meat and not flying to vacations and not using a car and not importing Avocados and not buying a new phone every year aren’t.
People are willing to endorse climate action as long as it doesn’t affect them.
This is a global survey; most of the world isn't flying or eating much meat.
Those who don’t aren’t the ones causing climate change, so what’s the point in asking their support?
Because they have power to refuse to be fossil fuel extraction colonies
No they don’t, any nation on top of fossil fuels that refuses to export them will face invasion or a coup.
Those that do more than make up for those that do not.
The point is that people are willing to make some level of personal sacrifice
It's very different doing those things willingly when all options are still there around you and a lot of other people are doing it anyway. And being in support of policies to reduce for example meat eating for everyone.
That map is interesting for Canada and the US...
Only 30-40% of people think they should contribute 1% or less of their income to fix the problem. But 70-80% think we and the government should do more about it.
Well let's be honest, we're already paying a fuckton of taxes, pick my 1% from there.
What counts as a fuckton of taxes?
No seriously, in the US you pay half to a third of what you would have paid between the thirties and the nineties depending on income bracket. If your rich you pay two thirds of what you did in the seventies. If your a major corporation you pay just two fifths of what you did in the sixties.
I get taxes feel expensive, but even just compared to the historical rate in the US you pay a fraction of what was normal for a few generations ago. Compared to other western nations in Europe or for instance Canada, the difference is even more stark.
Canada is sus af with the tax revenue. Our roads are crumbling, hospitals closing, schools underfunded, antiquated military, and yet we spend so much in taxes.
My first guess is someone isn’t paying their fair share and leaving it to less affluent individuals to pick up the slack.
The majority of people are not the problem. Politicians, big corporations and billionaires are.
Well, until the capitalist ruling class agrees, we're all fucked.
