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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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The 15-minute city: It's a global climate solution — if it can get past conspiracy theories and NIMBYs (www.npr.org)
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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 34 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I've lived in Austin since 1999. In 2012 I moved from a suburban area to downtown greatly in part because it would take me at least a thirty minute drive each way to get anything done. The moment I moved downtown, I rarely used my car. The best restaurants, coffee shops, and bars in the city are minutes away on foot or bike. Super markets, pharmacies, etc are really close. Anything I can't I can order from Amazon and have it within hours or the next day. That's one vehicle making multiple stops versus dozens of vehicles going to stores.

The quality of life dive my move is significantly higher now that I don't have to battle traffic.

[–] discodoubloon@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

There are lots of places in the US like this. Most of us are too busy being out and doing shit to comment about it. I don’t have great transit options here, so it’s different from my years in Europe, but it’s sufficient.

I obviously cant get to every bar, venue, museum, and place with public transit. My access to gourmet foods and exceptional stuff is limited. The life I’m leading now is very low footprint and again it’s sufficient for me.

I sometimes can’t believe how we are ridiculed by people who have never even set foot outside of the EU or even watched a travel show. You are really really focusing on the wrong things.

[–] bluGill@kbin.social -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Where I live down town has one grocery store and it is the expensive chain. A family could save money with a cheap used car.

[–] neanderthal@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I doubt it is enough to offset the cost of purchase, fuel, insurance, maintenance, registration, and in many areas property taxes. Driving even a cheap used car is rather expensive.

[–] bluGill@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

Not entirely, but cars are useful tools so a few other things as well. Don't forget that large family implies lots of bus pases while the car has the.same cost.