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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:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
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and as always, fossil fuel companies won't be held reliable for any of them...
Fossil companies exist because of billions of consumers like you. Half of Earth's population is alive thanks to nitrate fertilizer, made with natural gas. Industrial agriculture takes 10 fossil calories to produce one calory of food. And so on, and so forth.
No raindrop blames itself for the flood.
no raindrop is responsible for the flood. geographic features and atmospheric systems create floods
Some people demand a shitload more than others though. The average car burns 1 m³ of petrol each year. I burn none with my bike.
Then you have people who demand large meat portions in every single meal. I am quite happy to eat oats.
Some are raindrops, others are buckets. Then you have private jet owners... Heavy carbon taxes could help, or some kind of overall environmental harm calculation for it. If you actually care about the poor and don't just want to use them to defend your own life of luxury, its pretty easy to subsidise or reduce rate for essentials that overall rich or poor buy in similar quantities anyway. Its luxuries that the rich buy a lot more of and the poor dying more from pollution.
Only if you count the animal torture industry in "the population". More protein is spent keeping cows alive than humans.
I do mean about 4 billion of them https://ourworldindata.org/how-many-people-does-synthetic-fertilizer-feed
humans eat 2/3 of global crop calories. don't spread misinformation.
Calories are not protein. Humans burn lots of calories doing stuff animals in factory farming settings won't, such as being living adults that don't lactate kilos per day, or going for a walk, or doing physical labor.
36% of global crop yields are fed to animals.
None of what you've said here has refuted the person you're responding to, I just want you to understand that.
protein has calories.