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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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VeganPizza69 ⓋtoClimate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish·3 months ago

Heat is deadly. Why does our culture push us to ignore it?

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Heat is deadly. Why does our culture push us to ignore it?

VeganPizza69 ⓋtoClimate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish·3 months ago

Our attitudes about enduring extreme heat have to evolve.

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The same reason everything else gets ignored.

Our culture pushes us to ignore it because its only really a problem for poor people, and fixing it would mean less money for rich people.