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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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‘It’s too fast, too big’: speed of climate crisis is devastating crops, say farmers | Drought and extreme heat are killing plants, driving up prices while also making some farms economically unviable (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] artifex@piefed.social 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If there’s one area where I don’t mind government bailouts, it’s domestic food production.

What I DO mind is bailouts where the giant megafarmcorps are still allowed to keep their profits, give out dividends, do share buybacks, etc and then not lower prices (and probably ask for another bailout)

[–] Mikina@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Oh, definitely agree with that. But for some reason I just feel like that's unlikely to happen, I just can't imagine a goverment doing something like this. It's just doesn't feel like something plausible, for some reason.

But yeah, even if it did happen, it's probably going to be the second option you mentioned at this point.

[–] artifex@piefed.social 4 points 3 months ago

It'll depend on how much they think they can count on getting those heartland voters, I suppose. Also whether people will be too hungry to riot or not.

[–] cavitationfetishist01@quokk.au 3 points 3 months ago

If you can't imagine a government doing things that might structurally help, then maybe we need to stop having those.