this post was submitted on 06 May 2025
42 points (97.7% liked)
Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.
6862 readers
592 users here now
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.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Source is one of the few mainstream outlets (Vox being another) that is still talking about climate as a problem to be solved rather an irritating distraction from today's shiny new crises du jour, namely superpower competition and "catastrophic" low birth rates.
Back on topic, there's a paradox here. The aviation industry is naturally dragging its feet at every opportunity, but really that's logical. Unlike other industries (even cars, to a point), there is literally nothing this industry can do to "succeed" except shrink. Due to basic rules of fluid dynamics, it is extremely inefficient to travel fast. Doing it by burning fossils is doubly disastrous, but solving this particular challenge with any technology is a massively tall order.
On a planet of 9 billion, air travel is just not scalable. If you can do it without frying the planet, that's only because somebody else is not doing it.
Yeah, this is a big thing. We really should be trying to replace as much air travel as possible with trains (cause they can be electric,) but otherwise there's not a whole lot we can do in the "making traveling very long distances in a reasonable time energy efficient" space.