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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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Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War (www.nytimes.com)
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Shifting politics, intensive lobbying and surging disinformation online have undermined international efforts to respond to the threat.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You're right

I'm very much in the left camp and I do fear its too late. I fear that in the next 5 decades, millions if not billions will die and that we might actually face a societal collapse

Governments don't give a shit about climate, they're too dumb

Companies don't give a shit about climate because their owners direct the actions and they only care about money

So how exactly should I be positive and have a "let's go fix this!" attitude?

I'm tired, really really tired

[–] MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Don’t give up…that’s the point of the NYT article. It’s manipulation.

Every step each of us in the “west” takes to help has an outsized positive effect.

[–] hanrahan@piefed.social 1 points 3 months ago

So how exactly should I be positive and have a "let's go fix this!" attitude?

Fix what ? The civilization hell bent on destroying the biosphere and collapsing civilization ?

Climate change is the answer, just try not to not be at the front of the queue, try not to make it worse with your actions and how you vote and enjoy life as best you can. That's about all a sane person can do.

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/06/14/opinion/science-civilization-collapse-environment-limits

Rees bluntly states, “the human enterprise is effectively subsuming the ecosphere” and “wide-spread societal collapse cannot be averted — collapse is not a problem to be solved, but rather the final stage of a cycle to be endured.”