Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
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:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
Seize the wealth of the billionaire parasites and have less kids
I feel like this has been possible since the 80's but we just won't do it.
The two goals are not just not mutually exclusive, they are complimentary. Progress in one means progress in the other.
"Yeah but no" - The top 0.1%
And the 10% who are responsible for two thirds of emissions, which we're probably both part of.
You speak as if we owned the means of production. The point of all these "it's actually 100 million people who are at fault, not the 100 who actually make decisions" articles is so that responsibility is dissolved to a point of nonexistence and nothing gets done.
At this rate, blame the cows. Their farts are a very large part of climate change. If they didn't fart, we'd be much better off.
I just farted when I giggled at this. I feel shame.
Those cows exist because hundreds of millions of people eat cow meat, the 0.1% doesn't force us to eat it.
Is this a call to action?
We are absolutely part of the solution. Specifically, we have the power to hold the 0.1% and their petit quislings to task.
I'm just saying that yes the 0.1% pollute more individually, but most people in first world countries pollute way more than they should and if they're told to reduce their emissions they won't be ready to do their part.
I see your point.
Yes we'll all (all of us reading this anyway) have to do our part, but we've already had decades of individual, consumer-focused mitigation efforts (reduce-reuse-recycle, etc). There are too many political and market forces guiding your average person to continue consuming.
The corpos with the real money uphold a system that will only ever incentivise keeping the consumption treadmill going, no matter what some individual consumers might think about it.
I'm curious what you're proposing. My idea is to soak the rich until there are no more billionaires, and use the cash to pivot hard into a publicly funded green economy. I think people would get into it pretty quickly once they saw it wasn't just a green washing cash grab.
I 100% agree that billionaires shouldn't exist. I also believe that governments will need to take actions and adopt laws that people won't like at some point because we can't expect people to cut on luxury stuff by themselves (like air travel for example)...
There are some things which the rich can't force us to do, eating beef isn't mandatory for example, neither is buying a car with a big engine instead of the more economical option, but realistically people won't stop by themselves...
IPCC has been stating for at least the 3 last reports that a comprehensive litterature review led to the conclusion that reducing inegality in general is necessary to fight climate change.
Well, sure...we've always known that. It'll still never happen, though.
Tell me something new.
Possible, but it won't happen unless there's the appetite, and the reality is that the overwhelming majority of people just don't care, and plenty who care don't care enough to experience any inconvenience or change to their lifestyle