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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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Gen Z's climate anxiety is real and needs action -- for everyone's wellbeing (www.sciencedaily.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's weird how this is being approached as if it's just a mental health problem. Decades into the future Gen Z's mental health is going to be the least of their concerns. It's like saying someone who is starving is suffering from anxiety that may have significant long-term consequences. Yeah, their mental health probably isn't great and it's going to get worse, but that's not their primary long-term difficulty.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Its just crisis stalling, first you ignore the problem, then you distract from the cause of the problem, then you try to mitigate the effects of the problem, but of course we don't try to solve the problem cause that would cost rich people money.

Imagine a miserable fish in a gross aquarium, a capitalist would try to feed the fish happy pills instead of cleaning the environment that makes the fish miserable.