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It Is No Longer Possible to Escape What We Have Done to Ourselves
(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.
The prisoners dilemma seems an appropriate analogy. Business doesn't want to budge first and commit to a giant investment that isn't profit driven. It commits then to us and other businesses can eat their lunch while they sacrifice profit to help society. Government doesn't want to move first and drive business or if the county. And selfish people are just going to be selfish.
For your edit comments, just keep living by your principles. Share with others who want to listen, but don't force anyone. Just be you. If you're reading things like this out of curiosity, you're on the right side of things already.
You got what I was driving at. I don't even think that it takes people being particularly selfish either. I think it just takes human nature. Most people want to have nice things and very few want to be the first or only one to make a sacrifice. So people in general are involved in this prisoner's dilemma too, along with business, government, and media. It's like a 4-way prisoner's dilemma from hell.
Thanks, you too.