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U.S. Energy Secretary Pledges to Reverse Focus on Climate Change
(www.nytimes.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.
It's always been an oligarchy (aside from a short period after ww2 which generated an incredible climb in prosperity for the entire country, then the boomers pulled the ladder up after themselves and set fire to it). It's just completely mask-off now. If USAmericans want to have a non-serf short term and survive long term, they have to start hunting billionaires.
It was more that the oligarchs waged a sustained, generation-long counter-revolution, starting with their smarmy mouthpiece Reagan.
That too.