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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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Farming insects mostly replaces already low-impact plant ingredients, not high-emission animal products. Farming insects is “Not Recommended” as an effective climate solution. (drawdown.org)
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[–] carrotfox@piefed.social 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Literally zero need to eat insects. Plants have everything we need.

[–] jaykrown@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Plants have everything we need.

No plant (other than maybe Lemnoideae which only has it because of bacteria) has Vitamin B12

[–] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 15 hours ago

We don't eat plants in vacuum, most vegan products are reinforced with B12.

[–] carrotfox@piefed.social 1 points 23 hours ago

Fair point, but you can still take a supplement instead of eating a cricket

[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'd much rather eat bugs than pants alone if I had to give up meat

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

eat [...] pants

Awright Bart Simpson

[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago

The swipe typing can be a cruel mistress