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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

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Liberals Can't Address the Climate Crisis Because It Means Confronting Capitalism (www.currentaffairs.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/climate@slrpnk.net

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[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It's not actually confronting capitalism. It's about holding the responsible parties accountable while phasing out products that damage and/or change the ecosystem.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago*

The responsible parties are the capitalists who profit off the status quo. So yeah, capitalism.

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[–] bonesawmcl@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Reigning in socialized costs while appropriately taxing the practiced profits would be a good start.

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