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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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Does anyone else wish we had less news posts? (slrpnk.net)
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Hi, not sure if this is the right place for this, but - I come to slrpnk.net to talk with people about solarpunk ideas and actions, but my dash is frequently filled with endless news stories. If I wanted to read upsetting news, I would... go read the news. Climate in particular has almost no discussion about climate change or actions we can take and only news articles. I've been thinking of blocking the community so that I don't have to sift through news stories to get to posts by members of our community. Does anyone else feel like this?

(Note: this isn't to say that I'm ungrateful for the folks sharing the news articles. I do appreciate it! I just feel that for myself, I'd rather focus on the possibilities that solarpunk has and human connection with others in this movement.)

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[–] deelion@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 weeks ago

I've wondered for a long time why independent media that seeks to drive change doesn't make more effort to highlight solutions. I understand current, controversial events probably drive the majority of traffic, but why not pepper those articles with links that send people down rabbit holes into new ideas and solutions? (eg. "corrupt politician does corrupt things" article, filled with links to evergreen articles covering how to build in transparency and accountability in government)

I'm very new here so I don't know how it could work, but would it be possible to create a library of "Solarpunk solutions to... X" resources (which can be updated and built on by everyone, with some way of highlighting popular ideas rather than just recent ones) so new doom and gloom articles could be more easily turned into an opportunity to educate and motivate people to get involved with the solutions discussion?