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Why personal climate action matters – according to experts
(theconversation.com)
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:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
What we'd need to do is drastic reorganization of how we work and live and manufacture things. Things like:
Of course, it's career suicide to seriously discuss those points. That's why we still get this inane babble from the "intellectuals".
The sad truth is we simply don't live in a reality that ever could have done anything about climate change. So it never even mattered if it was anthroprogenic or not. It was always like a physical impossibility, an economic-political impossibility.