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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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Should Climate Protesters Be Less Annoying? (newrepublic.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ll try to sum it up in a pointed list.

  • agitate, educate and organize
  • as we know, not enough people are agitated and so all the past “educate” made by scientists has been pretty much useless
  • we need to raise the tension then
  • to raise the tension in a system where power lies in the hands of those that don’t want the tension, you need to force it
  • to force it without power, you have very little range of options
  • these actions are discussed a lot also out of the conscious-about-climate-people bubble
  • so it’s basically stealing time and cognitive energy from the shit media to this shit actions
  • the models of the past that worked better are the one for the workers rights and the one for the black people civil rights
  • in both cases, there was a whole ecology of actions: violent protests, disobedience, non violent marches, super far left parties, more moderate parties and so on.
  • they are a functional part of our ecology that is forcing the media to ring some bells

Here in Italy, they recently received a meeting with the climate minister, for example. No association could have that.

An impactful and radical change requires a whole ecology of movements with different strategies and tactics. Unless you have power in the system you are trying to change, obv.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is an actual response, thanks.

What I'm seeing is a minister met with Greta Thurnberg. She's a celebrity who gives talks on actual environmental issues. This is effective because it's explicitly about the environment.

I'm not aware of situations where people inconveniencing each other (but NOT inconveniencing power) led to meaningful change. Civil rights activists inconvenienced power, not each other.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you sure that black panthers or red brigades inconvenienced only those in power? Btw I was not talking about Greta Thunberg but Ultima Generazione, the Italian chapter of Just Stop Oil. Yes, the ones that put cleanable paint over stuff or block the roads

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Blocking roads is related to the climate crisis. This makes perfect sense.