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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 less meat ‘like taking 8m cars off road’ (www.bbc.com)
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[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Good point, but the market is very inefficient system for determining supply.

And big companies have other methods for dealing with low demand like

  • Lobby the government (and the government will give in)
  • Just targeting rich people. It is known that they contribute to climate change much more than working class people. As long as the rich are free to do whatever they like the planet will continue to rot.
[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It would still be way less profitable in the end and would raise questions by the public as to why so much money being wasted on a cruel inefficient system.

[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That is what I am saying it will become less profitable after years, we need climate change solutions now.

And most people are very good at ignoring cruelty.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

The People who want baby steps don’t give a damn about the environment. It’s just business as usual for them.