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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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Rich People Are the Big Barrier to Stabilizing the Climate (newrepublic.com)
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[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 64 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Rich people would be regulated and taxed... if not for the protection of conservatives.

If you aren't fighting conservatism, you aren't fighting climate change.

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

Those that benefit from corruption are unlikely to pass laws that inhibit their own ability to benefit from corruption.

[–] xenoclast@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Replace conservatives with "government corruption" and regulatory capture and you'd be more accurate.

It takes more than just bunch of geriatric politicians to corrupt the entire state and federal governments so completely.

Amazon, Nestle, (any weapons manufacturers), etc. those are the ones in control.

And they DO pay "taxes". Trillions of dollars in tax. They're just not paying taxes to the governments in the way we want/think.

Amazon execs are probably constantly looking for ways to reduce the amount they need to spend to control governments.

Think about who benefits most from a non functional government and regulations