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.
I'm sorry but these things drive me bonkers angry
You can't ask billions of people to do shit whilst < 2700 billionaires refuse to do shit because they need their private jet to buy an apple. You can't ask me to do a huge thing with zero impact whilst oil companies actively sabotage every effort to improve the climate so that shareholders can get that extra dollar.
Free solar panels for everyone.
Free heat pumps for everyone.
We need everyone on free clean electricity now and cut all natural gas lines to homes, businesses and factories. Nothing else comes close to the impact of those and it will drive a change in other sectors like transportation when there is free clean electricity everywhere.
What if everybody did something to slow or reverse climate change? Like organize democratically to overthrow capitalism.
A better standard of living could be achieved with 30% of current production because of how incredibly wasteful and redundant capitalist production is. That leaves a ton of headroom for treats, and we can still strike a metabolic balance with our planet.
What if every company did something?
I mean if every one stopped ordering from temu, it's already one problem solved and we move to the next one
All who works for a big company and do all they shit for them are not better than the corporatives. Follow orders is a coise.
Sounds good. I'll start by telling all my corporations that blast the majority of CO2 emissions worldwide into the air to slow it down a bit.
Good start. Then go vegetarian of even vegan and you should be good ;-)
That's all it took. The crisis has actually been over for ages ever since I have stopped eating meat. I've done it.
you should be good
Good news, the planet is now no longer on a direct course towards being rendered inhabitable due to being destroyed for profit. I. AM. GOOD.
Problem solved. Thank you so much on behalf of all future generations of the planet.
I could tell you the facts, like how stopping eating meat is one of the easiest ways to make a huge change. I could give you some studies, show you how almost every report on climate change in the last 15 years has listet going more plant based is part of their recommendations. But you know what? I'm just fucking over with people that aren't grown up enoth to even do the slightest little change in their lives.
We deserve the future that awaits us.
I'm slightly fed up with being promised that going meat free will get me a livable planet when I retire because I have fucking delivered my end of the bargain. I want my livable planet now.
It's like
"You can improve our situation if you grab a thimble and start scooping water out of the boat now."
"There's still the giant hole in the hull that brings in a lot more water than my little thimble can deal with. What do we do about that?"
"Shut up and keep scooping :D"
Yeah. The beef thing has become the main call to action while ignoring that beef consumption has been falling since the 70's. It's also not clear how much of that carbon is part of the existing carbon cycle.
The solution is adding less carbon to the existing cycle which means stopping pumping including and especially "natural" gas.
Everything else is performative.
Only when we stop adding it to our environment can we have any hope at sequestration.
"natural” gas
It might seem a misnomer nowadays, but it really is a good name. It replaced town gas or syn-gas, which was artificially produced at coal gasification plants through pyrolysis and pumped into homes for heating, cooking, and lighting. It was a long time until natural gas replaced it. That shit was loaded with carbon monoxide and is the reason for the old head in the oven suicide trope.
That misses the point. It's methane. Burning it releases carbon dioxide and whatever doesn't burn or leaks is directly adding methane. The heat from burning it is more heat into the atmosphere.
Since we're pumping it from underground every bit of it adds directly to the carbon cycle.
There is too much focus on what is already in the carbon cycle and while we are adding to the carbon cycle, none of it matters.
They're mostly not blasting it directly; they're selling fossil fuels for others to blast. Changing how you commute or heat your home helps change social norms around those and lowers the rate of emissions
By God, you're right! It was me all along. I am to blame for Climate Change! Sorry guys. I'll stop Climate Change this instant. Sorry again.
I'm not saying that either. But we are at the point where it takes people showing neighbors the changes that everybody needs to make.