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.
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But for a short while there we created some amazing value for shareholders.
Why, instead of lowering CO2, do we keep increasing the soeaf of increase of pumping CO2 in the atmosphere?
We were worried that climate change would be a life ending problem for our kids, but at this speed it's going to be a life ending problem for us, and still nobody gives a shit.
It's simple, really. Line go up? Good. Line go down? Bad.
Does not matter what the line represents; it must go up.
We will stop all the flights and yachts and cargo ships when it's too late. Don't worry.
Nah, trump just announced that he'll reverse all of our climate legislation if the oil execs bribe him with a billion dollars. They're never going to stop.
Please keep recycling and being vegan though so we can drive around in them a little longer. Weeeee!
Tbf getting rid of 99% of the cows would be a huge win.
Recycling? You mean shipping garbage to China and throughout it all in land fills?
Yay, i wish I saved all of these horrible depressing titles for a collage to put on my wall when the world ends, just so we can look back and show people we knew.