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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I just got back from watering the community garden I volunteer at for about 12 hours every week. One of the main projects we have been working on for the past few months is expanding our community composting program.

I live in a reasonable dense city area and we have several hundred people who use the compost facility to stop the food waste going into landfill.

We are quadrupling the capacity as it has become so popular in the past few years that we are struggling to keep up.

We sell the compost to fund other activities in the garden.

Including biding hives for native bees, running workshops for worm farms for those that do have garden space and giving away native plants that feed the local bee population.

I also volunteer 4 hours a week at my local state member of parliament's office (green party).

I do not own a car and walk or take public transport everywhere.

What do you do?...

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

In terms of what me and you do it's nothing more than a whistle in a storm.

I'm a teacher for refrigeration and air conditioning so I'm teaching the next generation of engineers and technicians to understand alternative refrigerants to use that are less environmentally damaging and how to properly dispose of the old ones. I'm teaching them how to keep refrigeration systems up and running by properly maintaining them and ensuring proper efficiency and alternative power sources but most importantly to reduce the likelihood of leaks on a system as the refrigerant itself is the biggest environmental issue with the industry.

What these people do by inconveniencing the super rich is what matters. The corporations dumping chemicals or rich people running their yachts and private jets are the biggest issues of today and until they stop, your garden and any of my teaching doesn't make the slightest bit of difference.

Still though. Good on you, as long as it's true.