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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: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

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[–] DarkGamer@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Interesting read.

Even without the saltwater problem, drinking from the end of the Ganges sounds pretty bad considering how polluted that river is.

I have a hard time understanding the mentality of people having kids while complaining, there's not enough fresh water.

I suppose it's good that most of the local water supply here in ca comes from mountain snowpack melts.

[–] thefactthat@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

I have a hard time understanding the mentality of people having kids while complaining, there's not enough fresh water.

I mean for one, people don't always have a choice about having children if they can't access birth control.

And there are cultural pressures that mean that having children is less of a choice and more a pre-ordained stage of life.

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