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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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[–] cavitationfetishist01@quokk.au 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Okay but we need to be able to to that under capitalism without too much radical change. So...

[–] thinkercharmercoderfarmer@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think we can stop at "Okay but we need to be able to do that". Capitalism, radical change, those are challenges for sure but the alternative is death. I assume, if I ever get anything off the ground, somebody with a megaphone is going to find a way to have a problem with it, either because they have their own sinister goals, or they are genuinely misguided, or perhaps they have a valid point and I really did miss something. In any case, I think the best approach is to assume what is necessary is possible and try to jump the hurdles as we get to them.

[–] cavitationfetishist01@quokk.au 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The problem is the capitalists are more concerned with their share of the pie than there ever being pie again.

They need to die for us to live. Thoroughly and with sloppily. Every one. It fucking sucks. I hate the amount of ways we've trapped ourselves in necessarily violent situations where we just don't escape without bloodshed.

[–] thinkercharmercoderfarmer@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 months ago

Ok, well, that sounds dire, but I don't think "they need to die for us to live" was ever said by anyone who cared much about who lives. I'm gonna keep working on my thing, good luck with your crusade or whatever it is.