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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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Beef production drives 40% of agriculture-linked forest destruction, Brazil leads (www.reuters.com)
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[–] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 13 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Those who trade forest for steak will eventually have neither forests nor steaks.

[–] rbn@sopuli.xyz 7 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Unfortunately, it won't be them in most cases. It will be future generations and people in poorer countries that suffer first and the hardest.

[–] fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

Let the future generations eat cake! Heh. Happy cake day!

[–] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Have you seen the price of beef? The future is now! ;)

[–] rbn@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

I haven't, but I'm more than happy if the market proofs me wrong. IMO the price can't be high enough if that's what it takes to reduce the demand.

[–] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

The demand is insatiable, and unmet. Price based demand destruction is only part what were seeing here. Whatever can be made will be sold. We can't supply enough to meet demand so we ration by price.

It's not the victory you probably hope for.