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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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Because relentless bad news breeds cynicism, which is demoralizing and self-defeating. In this community there's already plenty of that to go round. The full story is slightly more complex.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (12 children)

Economic growth makes us all better,

No. Economic growth under capitalism is the problem. Capitalism requires infinite growth on a finite planet, and this is what got us here in the first place. So this is not a sustainable economic system.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Completely agree. That one was a terrible take.

Growthism is a de-facto religion IMO. The obsession with this weirdly abstract indicator is obviously irrational.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

In a liberal democracy, it hypothetically should allow for increased economic mobility, by making "new money" available to people to make their riches. As others have said, this is unsustainable in a finite system.

Another way to allow for economic mobility is to free up some of the "old money" back into the economy.

There are many ways to accomplish this.

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