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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: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world. About 1C of total warming. Second chart: about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability. Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases. About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Poor countries eat meat. What you think poor countries are all eating vegetables all the time. They have fricken huge markets where they buy stuff daily. I believe India has the largest amounts of vegetarians. And that is 20% to 39% that is a lot of people but not the whole country.

[–] weps@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Poor countries survive on rice and grains for most of their calories. Billions of people.

Didn't mean to imply that they are vegetarians.

Didn't know there was discussion about vegetarians.