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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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A New Concept for Fighting Climate Change | A growing number of climate activists are taking up a fresh idea as a rallying cry and a legal strategy: Nature, in all its manifestations, is alive. (www.theatlantic.com)
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I'm not so sure this is really new; it's something that's been around for decades, albeit in a marginal kind of way, with a scientific understanding of cause and effect being far more central.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I'd say it's been around for millenia.. probably as long as language at least. Not a fresh idea globally, just for those of us who grew up in a dominionist-type world view.

I don't really understand your link to the IPCC figure..

FWIW, I think "water is alive" is only a concept that makes sense in a context where the water is interacting with other things (e.g. the hydrocycle, winds, tides, ecology). Water in the purified and stored sense isn't really... Unless it can rust it's container, I suppose. But yeah, rivers being alive makes lots of sense.