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For climate and livelihoods, Africa bets big on solar mini-grids
(arstechnica.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.
This is, counterintuitively, degrowth in action.
Replacing twenty years' worth of kerosene, gasoline, wood, etc, with a single solar microgrid, is an example of providing higher quality of life with fewer resources.
Good to see some good news these days.