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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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‘Keeping us hooked on fossil fuels’: how can we negotiate with autocracies on the climate crisis? (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 year ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/climate@slrpnk.net

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[–] bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I was about to point out that the US and its military are huge factors; then I was sad with realization 🫠

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[–] vipaal@aussie.zone 1 point 1 year ago

I don't know

There was this Nobel Prize winning guy called Norman Borlaug. He gave an alright Nobel acceptance speech. Now seems to be a good time to dust it and start reading. Pretty sure it is a short and crisp read.

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