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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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A 600-Year-Old Blueprint for Weathering Climate Change (www.theatlantic.com)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Power and prestige lay not in amassing wealth but in assuring that wealth was shared wisely, and leaders earned support in part by being good providers and wise distributors. Many polities established councils of elders and balanced power by pairing leaders, such as the war chief and the peace chief; setting up male and female councils; and operating under family-based clans that had members in multiple towns.

I can only dream that we could learn to follow these ways now

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Sounds a lot like the setting in Naruto. Kishimoto was on to something. :D

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well, Naruto was a post apocalyptic scifi, where they were rebuilding the world on the ashes is a fallen empire, so maybe its a bit prophetic since history is largely circular

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Yep, you got it! :D