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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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[โ€“] lost@lemmy.wtf 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And in 12 months' time, the voting system will allow just one option. Great move, guys... great move.

[โ€“] axx@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 days ago

But how does voting protect in any way against your supreme court being stuffed with judges who clearly have no problems being completely biased and using the court as a tool for partisan politics?

It doesn't. You'd need an opposition party that actually fights that crap. That recognises tactics to pervert instituions for what they are and acts accordingly. You'd need different "checks and balances".

Electoralism breaks down when you don't have a healthy democracy and public institutions. We can now all see that the USA's institutions and constitution were not as strong as they were made to be.

Your political system is so fucked up, and yet you insist on blaming the voters.

This obsession with voting as the main form of political participation is IMHO childish and doesn't do justice to the reality of the world.