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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: 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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How Wall Street Turned Its Back on Climate Change | Six years after the financial industry pledged to use trillions to fight climate change and reshape finance, its efforts have largely collapsed. (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

C corps, which almost any company you've heard of, North Star is money. They, in some cases legally, have to prioritize shareholder returns. Little has been done to consider short vs. long term return as part of that equation, but I digress.

Just like black lives matter, DEI, lgbtq rights/pride, being against Nazis, it's all just a mask. A sheen. Businesses as we've seen, either happy prance into supporting whatever will make them the most money politically. Look at how many companies fell in line when attempted autocracy has been pushed the last 13 months since the fanatics took power.

Coke created Fanta to have an unfamiliar brand to sell in the Nazi Germany market in the 30s that wouldn't be familiar to Americans. Why? They wanted the money and did not care who they were dealing with in power. Nothing in that lesson is new in history nor will change in the future.

Companies are not people and have no morals. Don't look for them to stand up for what is right.