this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2025
494 points (100.0% liked)
Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.
6487 readers
958 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
What happened in the 80s? Seems the temps were all sorta within a pretty standard deviation until then.
Who left their heater running?
Iirc, if you're 60 today, around 75% of human CO2e emissions were created during your life time. The number may be a little off, but the point is: since emissions have steadily increased, it's very likely that the majority of emissions were emitted during your life time. Which also explains why shit is getting crazier very right now, as emissions are on a level never seen before and still rising.
This is why I think we need to have global battle Royales. Thin the herd. Keep the population lower so we don't have to work the earth as much.
Maybe a nuclear war and the following nuclear winter would be a good reset for ol mother nature lol.
Population is not even the issue here. We are capable of sustaining the amount of people we have we just refuse to do so efficiently because it benefits rich people.