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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 Meat Is Bad for Climate Change, and Here Are All the Studies That Prove It (sentientmedia.org)
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[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

The biggest deterrent for me ever switching to being a vegetarian/vegan is…

Well, vegans.

If they weren’t so god-awful arrogant, I’d consider it, but I would never want anyone to associate me with that type of behavior. And there’s been several times where I was prepared to make the switch. In the end, the consideration of of being linked to such a hateful culture was just too much.

I’d imagine a lot of people feel the same way about Christianity- and if I were more clever then I am, if probable be able to spot the irony in this.

[–] theonyltruemupf@feddit.de 0 points 8 months ago

In my experience, it's mostly the other way around. Vegans are just existing and "radical" omnivores feel threatened by that, feel the need to defend themselves and make situations awkward. I am not strictly vegan but I mostly chose to eat vegan if it's available. I just order something without animal products and people immediately try to start a discussion. If I don't engage in it, they are unhappy. If I do engage in it, they are even more unhappy.