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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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Shoppers say they want sustainable goods, but won't pay more (www.reuters.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

Why should they pay more?

These companies have been driving people into the poor house for years. A nontrivial number of products started out as sustainable. The big business execs decided to save money and increase profit by moving their manufacturing to something that wasn't sustainable... all so they could get a bonus, or short term increase to their bottom line.

Did they pass any of those savings onto customers? Fuck no. They pocketed that cash faster than you can say "corruption".

Now that they want to reverse that decision, they want to pass off the cost of doing it the right way, to the consumer?

How about you go get fucked in the ass with a cactus you fucking money worshipping fuckheads.