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Why Heat Pumps Are the Future, and How Your Home Could Use One
(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.
I'd love to, can someone convince my landlord?
Talk to them about how the high price of heating is making it tough for people to pay rent.
“I’ll just find someone who can afford it”
Seriously though — if they move you to heat pumps, it can make it cheaper, which means that they end up collecting rent instead of the propane company or oil company.