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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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Eating Meat Is Bad for Climate Change, and Here Are All the Studies That Prove It (sentientmedia.org)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Look at how much impact that first thing has, y'all. If you convince one person not to have another child that has the same impact as convincing sixty people to go plant based.

Fighting for reproductive rights is one of the most impactful things you can do for the climate.

Save the Earth, have an abortion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Or convince 2-3 people to give up meat. If they each convince 2-3 people who each convince 2-3 people who… ok, I’ll stop…. But the point stands. They don’t even need to stop, just reduce their meat consumption.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Right so just convince literally everyone to go vegan. Sure.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

Yes, that’s exactly what I said /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Very true but these are separate things and both can be done.