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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€“] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

These guys (the state) really don't understand the social contract do they..

[โ€“] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 4 points 23 hours ago

Ask the ghosts of a million massacred native Americans if the social contract matters. Their silence is your answer.

The "social contract" is gaslighting, blaming the victims of state violence when they are at best made to sign under duress and at worst simply oppressed. It is the words of an abuser to their golden child.

I know as a former golden child how hard it can be to face it. Our acceptance of their narrative has kept us safe at times, and to see that liberalism is gaslighting means giving up on that layer of protection. The state can hurt us, the state will hurt us, but the one way out is... not safe to write down within its walls.