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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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5 ways we’re making progress on climate change (www.vox.com)
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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] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I dunno man, I bet the current population trajectory plus improvements in efficiency/ conservation with a lot less capitalism will likely be sufficient. 90% just seems like a lot more work than necessary.

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

Prior to the Industrial Revolution the population hovered around 1 billion give or take a few hundred million. Let’s go back there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The planet could handle more with modern tech and conservation practices.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

That’s never gonna happen