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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

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:

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Restoring nature is our only climate solution (www.resilience.org)

submitted 2 days ago by solo@piefed.social to c/climate@slrpnk.net

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A review of available techno-fixes leads to two unavoidable conclusions. First, our problem is not just carbon emissions per se; it’s also how we humans inhabit our planet (too many of us using too much stuff too fast). And second, we need non-technological ways of addressing the climate crisis.

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[–] solo@piefed.social [S] 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

To my knowledge deforestation does not take place because people move out of cities and into nature.