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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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You’re doing it wrong: Recycling and other myths about tackling climate change (wapo.st)
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I'll note that this is article is concentrated on individual action, not on political action to change policy, which has a far bigger impact than individual action can.

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[–] Tolstoshev@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Recycling can worsen things when boats full of plastic waste are shipped to China for “recycling”.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

I thought China stopped accepting those some years back.