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Do Not Pin Your Hopes for Guilt-Free Hamburgers on Seaweed
(newrepublic.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 literally just want to get on with positive progress. I'm tired of this having our cake and eating it too way of progress. Change is okay and a part of it. So maybe we dont eat burgers for the rest of eternity. So what. Let's actually start advancing instead of existing in this weird "physical hardware get better but everything else must remain in limbo" era. Social progress matters just as much.
Hard agree, market solutions are bullshit designed to keep profits high and that's all.