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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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One in 11 people went hungry last year. Climate change is a big reason why. (grist.org)
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[–] Beaver@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Also animal agriculture stealing food from people in the global south.

[–] iiGxC@slrpnk.net 10 points 3 months ago (8 children)

https://awellfedworld.org/scarcity-vs-distribution/ yupp people want to pin it on climate change, which is a big problem, but don't want to see how big an impact eating animals has on this stuff. Animal ag is terrible for the environment (emissions, deforestation, water use, and land destruction in non-forested areas), it steals crops out of our mouths, and it's torturing and murdering literally incomprehensible numbers of innocent animals each year.

If you're reading this and still eat animal products, this is the sign that it's time to stop. Please, the animals, the earth, and our own species can't take it much longer, they should have never had to take any in the first place.

[–] LowleeKun 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Any people who believe they can not, i would recommend going to eat out at some vegan places from time to time in order to realize that you won't really miss out on anything. The fomo is not warrented. Also you won't lose friends. Or anything really. You will gain however a good feeling about what you eat. Can recommend.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You will lose friends if you're surrounded by idiots, though.

[–] LowleeKun 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Are you talking about people not wanting to be your friend because of you going/being vegan? I have yet to meet someone like this. Not sure i would try to befriend those people anyways, sounds like a special breed of intolerant prick.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well yeah. The more you care, the more you will naturally disconnect for the average person around you. It's not necessarily a bad thing.

[–] LowleeKun 1 points 3 months ago

Disconnecting from the people around me does not sound healthy but you do you.

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