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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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If So Many Americans Care About Climate, Why Don’t They Vote Like It? 11.2 million. That’s the number of Americans who rank climate as a their top priority but didn’t vote in the 2024 US elections (coveringclimatenow.org)
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[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 37 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah but it’s peak lib to blame voters for not voting hard enough, instead of demanding the bare minimum from those in power.

SMH

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Instead of? You know it's both, right? On public forums, you're talking to voters so the proper action is encouraging their vote. When you make demands of those in power, you should be writing them directly, or congregating with others in protests that they'll actually see.

What possible benefit do you get from making demands of people in power in the places they aren't?

[–] dubs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The people in power don't need to be informed more about what people want. They already know, they just don't care.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works -1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

In many cases, yeah absolutely. In others, the crazy side is a lot more vocal so that's who the candidates cater too. Squeaky wheels and all that.

But my point stands, making demands only has a chance of accomplishing anything if you actually make them to the subject in question. Going to random forums, especially here, and making demands of politicians is silly at best, counterproductive at worst.

[–] Yuccagnocchiyaki@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Things like, no more foreign wars, getting corruption out of office and government, free healthcare, free education, and reigning in corporations is supported by about 75-85% in our country.

Which parties run on those?

Not which one should we hope and vote for that will deliver, because right now, their promise is to "restore affordable care act tax credits" " address affordability" and "going after crooks"

Are we going to claim that the last two platitudes MEAN something?

If that is what so many Americans want, WHO IS THE DNC BASE?