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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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Climate quitting: the people leaving their fossil fuel jobs because of climate change (theconversation.com)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

You're not wrong with your points, but these are mainly to do with an industrial society in general, not automation specifically. Most of those points are also true for the good ol' steam-powered factories and pure mechanical processes. The main difference was that more human labor was exploited instead of automated processes today. In the end, industrial systems are always linear. Things go in on one end, such as fuel, raw material, parts, and goods come out on the other end, together with a bunch of waste that's always somebody else's problem to deal with. Many push for circular solutions, and they do exist, but basically if it costs any money or effort it's not implemented.

Capitalism replaced old feudalism and in turn capitalism will be replaced. However you do need to replace it with a system that can feed several billion people. Although these systems are not just invented. They grow out of things people found out that kinda work.