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Effective Activism (lemmy.world)
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We often see news about climate protests. What we don't see is how effective or ineffective it is.

Rose Abramoff pointed out how they have had great success delaying, and hopefully eventually stopping the MVP pipeline:

https://climatejustice.rocks/@ultracricket/111035854628921172

Anybody that works in a media outlet, please start drawing attention to activism successes. Make it front and center in the headline or opening paragraph.

If we want to stop global warming, we need EFFECTIVE action. Start spreading the word on what gets results.

Publish how to convince city governments to fix car dependency.

Remember, global warming, if left unchecked could be the worst thing that has happened to humanity. WW2 was pretty bad. American and European imperialism was pretty bad. The black death was pretty bad. Let that sink in.

Creators, start writing and spreading the word on how to fight global warming effectively, within the confines of your local laws of course. Here in the US, you can certainly write about people that have broken the law and what the consequences were, like Rosa Parks.

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[-] souperk@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago

My immediate thought was "yes, we need this". My second thought was "can we make one for ourselves?".

I am sure for each success there is an article by a small local news source waiting there to be discovered. I think your post gave me inspiration to start digging.

Also, I am wondering if there should be a community on Lemmy dedicated to successes?

[-] neanderthal@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

"can we make one for ourselves?".

Yes. I run a small tech blog and work in tech, I have been putting together a plan to publish these kinds of guides.

I think your post gave me inspiration to start digging.

GREAT! The whole reason I post this stuff is to inspire action. I want my kids to have a future.

Let's use this community to start organizing.

[-] souperk@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

I am a software engineer myself, I am interested in contributing. Is there a matrix group or something equivalent I can join?

[-] neanderthal@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Not that I am aware of.

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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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