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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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Just in case anyone jumps to conclusions and just reads the headline. This isn't a response to the latest wave of protest crackdowns. JSO were always a group with one specific demand (it's in their name) and that demand is now UK government policy.

We'll never know how much a role JSO played in this, and they aren't the most popular outside of environmental circles, but as a UK resident, I'm pretty stoked we have people fighting this hard to protect the climate. Hopefully we'll see some of the same faces in newer groups and movements soon.

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

Please. Just stop doing things that only impact the average person. Go bother the elites who actually pollute the world.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The vast majority of pollution is created by the vast majority of people. The impact of the ultra-wealthy is large individually, but small collectively.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or rather, the vast majority of pollution is created by a relatively small set of companies on behalf of the vast majority of people in the world (or at least in certain wealthy countries.) I.E. oil companies which generate oil used to power plants that generate electricity and plastic that are used by ordinary people, whose options are restricted such that they are reliant on the set of companies generating pollution. Thus, people need to reduce their reliance on (and therefore usage of) said industries (which would stop operating (and thus polluting) if they were not used), but can't do so without cooperation from governments that are often paid off by the corporations generating the pollution. The wealthy generate pollution corporately, not individually, most climate actions will necessarily affect the average person, because they will affect corporations whose actions have an unjust effect on the lives of the average individual..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

But that's not catchy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

The average person in the developed world is an active part of the problem - not much out fault to be honest, we are (all here I assume) part of a social system and it’s very hard to live within limits when the whole country is functioning much beyond. Just by BEING in the UK your carbon footprint goes +1.5TonsCO2/year from public service and infrastructure emissions… (if you’re in Switzerland it’s 4+Tons)