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this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2024
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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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Vote for Democrats = ehh they could clearly do a lot more but at least they aren't constantly making things worse.
Vote for republicans = constantly making things worse for some inexplicable reason.
The explication is it makes a handful of influential people very rich, and they think they'll die before the direst consequences of their actions manifest.