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We’re over-freezing our food. Turning up the temperature slightly could avoid 17 Mt of CO2
(www.anthropocenemagazine.org)
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
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:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
Looking at that rant. I'm pretty sure I have a lower carbon footprint than you.
In fact my decisions at work probably put me in a negative carbon bracket. I've certainly reduced many people's carbon footprint by more than my personal footprint can ever be.
Although I may make myself some steak and avocado toast now you've mentioned it, so the daily total will take a hit. Never had steak on toast before.
Both our carbon footprints are a rounding error. The only thing we can do to affect climate change is vote people in who will do something about it, protest.
I've not flown anywhere in 18 years. I might or might not fly somewhere on holiday soon. But if I do fly I'll sleep soundly.
You on the other hand have probably done nothing to reduce anyone's carbon footprint except your own and it's still multiple times the average of an individual globally speaking.
Use the power you have to do something, even if it's just voting. Don't rant at people on the internet who don't live in a hut on the equator living off their own small holding.