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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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Six ways inequality holds back climate action (theconversation.com)
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Are improvements to green technologies, like better batteries and more efficient solar panels, enough on their own to tackle climate change? Unfortunately not. Our behaviour and lifestyles must change too.

Rolling out the solutions to climate change (electric vehicles, solar power, heat pumps) will require confronting the enormous gulf in wealth and resources separating the richest and poorest people – both within countries and between them.

In our recent article for Nature Climate Change, we explain why inequality remains one of the biggest barriers to the net zero transition.

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[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

  1. The very rich are very big polluters

  2. Political solutions are limited

  3. Carbon taxes could be more effective

  4. Green options aren’t in reach for all

  5. People need free time to go green

  6. Public services cannot meet their potential

[–] Gbagginsthe3rd@aussie.zone 4 points 10 months ago

So when is it in our best interest to start eating the rich?

I wanna play a game. No one is allowed more than $999 million in wealth. Anyone who is found having more than that gets put on a worldwide manhunt. We could make it fun, every few weeks we spin the chocolate wheel starting with bezos, gates, musk, rhinehart etc