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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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Another Cop wrecked by fossil fuel interests and our leaders’ cowardice – but there is another way (www.theguardian.com)
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The fingerprints of Russia and Saudi Arabia are all over the decision text in Brazil. But a group of nations led by Colombia and the Netherlands offer hope

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

History offers us a rough sketch..

[–] limer@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think the only way to save the earth is by abolishing capitalism as practiced in most countries. And that cannot be done either through votes or conventions like cop.

[–] _d_Lux@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Any attempt to abolish "capitalism" will end up with those who currently possess the capital winding up on top, and the cycle continuing.

However, if we instead abolish exploitation of specific non-renewable natural resources, we may be able to get somewhere while impacting the mechanisms that drive capitalism in the process.

[–] limer@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

There is no roadmap to modify the destruction through existing structures.