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

Let me clarify too

I do all I reasonably can. Don't drive an SUV, used to be on a plant-based diet, etc. None of that matters in the grand scheme of this information sadly.

I'm all for evolving as a species and adopting new technologies. The problem lies with those who resist change and get stuck in their ways shrugging off adoption.

[–] ghostBones@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

We have to make the behavior of people that are destroying our global ecosystem shameful and intolerable, that's how I see this article. I've never seen societal change occur without a collective shift in perspective. This article tries to make that process more understandable because we are short on time. It is a process that has been repeating throughout human history.

As far as personal efforts and struggle to help, I don't really see it as relevant to this particular discussion. The contemporary human tendency to see global issues as a personal issue is decidedly Western. This goes beyond self, and the western obsession with selfhood. The fact that your efforts aren't helping does not create a basis for dismissing and disregarding the severity of the issue. Forgive me if that's rude, what I'm saying is this is not at all personal and about recycling habits. This is about creating a collective consciousness of disapproval that grows to a size where it can no longer be ignored or dismissed for the sake of profit and gain.

Child labor was perfectly okay until everyone decided that it was not okay. This is the crux of the article. If you look at history, it is moments like that that determine subsequent history.

It's about everyone collectively deciding that they've had enough of something. We are up against PR machines and lots of other opinion modifiers to make it seem like our perspective is invalid. We have to overcome that.

[–] doppelgangmember@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ghostBones@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I very much appreciate you, for the opportunity to constructively discuss this.