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Climate Change Is Losing Its Grip on Our Politics
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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.
*American politics.
My own nation's leader was banging on about wanting to push to be a leader in climate change action just a few days ago, it made various headlines.
It's not like we're all suddenly going to forget what's happening around us because some other country just elected it's first self-admitted Dictator.
Americans can't possibly be that far up their own arses.