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‘Climate Optimism’ Is Dangerous and Irrational
(www.currentaffairs.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.
It's worth reading the full article — the big concerns are that:
None of this in any way reverses the idea that if we actually got to zero emissions, we'd see temperatures stabilize, or that it's impossible to do just that.