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[David Wallace-Wells] Do you see any tension between this kind of Green agenda, focused on inequality and affordability, and the older one, focused on environmentalism and climate?

[Zack Polanski] I think the climate crisis should be everyone’s No. 1 priority, but you can’t tackle the climate crisis without tackling the affordability crisis and the inequality crisis. It’s the same polluters who are destroying our environment who are extracting wealth from our economy to line their own pockets.

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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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