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China Is Leaving America in the Dust on Clean Energy
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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:
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.
American Republicans are selling out the future of humanity for their own personal power and greed.
At what point should they be treated as criminals in the International Criminal Court? At what point do they face justice for what they're doing?
In the proxima series by Stephen Baxter, when people realize just how fucked they are and revolt, they have huge international trials sentencing the oligarchy and their extended families to death.
Similarly in The Ministry for the Future, a bunch of people take "more direct" actions against those who put them in the situation where thousands of people boil to death in peak summer heat in India and such. And I don't blame them, I'm sure that's going to happen much more when the general public experiences more and more negative extreme effects from climate change. Hence why many billionaires are building climate change proof compounds.
Now wouldn't be to soon, as far as I'm concerned. Since you asked.
What are you talking about? How does that even relate to anything I said?
are you ok buddy? Of course not, I have no idea what you're on, but I hope you're doing ok. Maybe go to the doctor?
This is c/climate
Very few climate focused voters did.
The big issue for American environmentalists has long been failing to vote at all
Please seek counseling instead of blaming people for imagined actions