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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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[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (18 children)

Capitalism won’t allow us any means to solve the climate crisis unless their motives for profit somehow magically aligned with the climate motive.

Capitalism is killing us all. And they’re happily watching us fight amongst ourselves over our own “carbon footprint.”

Break out the guillotines, burn down the banks, upend the system. We don’t have any more time for this shit.

[–] nevemsenki@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (11 children)

So what's your alternative? I've lived in planned economy during the socialist era, and it wasn't exactly great. You had to have friends telling you when shipments of toilet paper or food would arrive and make it early to the shop - otherwise you got nothing, because someone in the central planning office fucked up again.

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago

The alternative is a cooperation based economy, rather than a competition based one.

You know, like how the very basics of society work. After all, without cooperation society would never exist.

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