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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:

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Biodegradable plastics are not a climate solution on their own (www.anthropocenemagazine.org)

submitted 9 months ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/climate@slrpnk.net

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A new global life-cycle analysis finds that if not properly disposed of, biodegradable plastics could increase methane emissions and plastic accumulation.

The paper is here

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[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 3 points 9 months ago

yup! we need to systematically restructure our society and how we live. the climate collapse is the result of society that rewards moral apathy

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