19
Opinion | Why We Should Politicize the Weather
(www.nytimes.com)
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.
Climate change isn’t just about the weather. It’s about the shit we all do as humans - burning squeezed dinosaur juice and other fossil fuels - that is causing global warming and the extreme as fuck weather we’re now seeing, feeling, smelling and fleeing (until there’s nowhere left to flee to).
And that most definitely is political, Florida man.