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What If People Don’t Need to Care About Climate Change to Fix It?
(www.nytimes.com)
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 feel many people are so far removed from the consequences of their actions that they act irresponsibly. Hiding behind the wall of "it's massive corporations not me" is so infuriating to me because things will never get better if people keep being passive as opposed to proactive. Try going vegan, try driving less, try attending a climate protest. Make some fucking noise. Shits getting worse, where's your fucking anger?
i pay taxes and have been paying them for a long time, why isn't this history already?
i pay so that things happen for society
That's what you think taxes are for? Taxes are so we can bomb children to pieces in the Middle East, not for improving the country.