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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] 6 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

Our mass cowardice, mine included, is our shame and culpability.

Like the German citizens who weren't Nazis but stayed quiet and didn't protest, only on a global scale. We should all be Greta, getting arrested doing the right thing, but again cowardice in the face of inhumanity is our sin.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Just smart enough to figure out how to blow ourselves up, and still stupid enough to do it.

It always provides context for me in life to remember that, with great difficulty, humanity managed to do something I would think any sapient life form would consider a massive technological threshold/achievement: we figured out how to split the atom, releasing practically limitless energy.

...And Why did we suddenly rush to do so? To make big boomie boom rival monkey tribe.

"Our technology has exceeded our humanity" - Albert Einstein

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

Yep, even in the nations I often look up to from my gold plated shithole as the last models of humanity on Earth, all the while going back to the same question...

...and being left with the same sad answer, we as a species arent the cure, and we aren't both, we're just the disease.