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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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Too good to be true: the greenwashers’ box of tricks (www.ft.com)
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Companies are becoming ever craftier in their efforts to pose as more climate-friendly than they are

The name of the ruse: a taxonomy of greenwashing

Mechanism

  • Misleading information
  • Attention deflection
  • Attention reduction (absolute)
  • Attention reduction (peer-overshadowed)
  • Attention timing

Classic application

  • Misleading claims made by firms themselves
  • Greenshifting of blame on to demanding consumers
  • Limited disclosure of worthy ambitions
  • Decent disclosure but substandard vis à vis peers
  • Delayed disclosure

Sophisticated application

  • Greenlabelling by third parties, which certify firms’ performance
  • Greenlighting of good-news case studies
  • Fuller disclosure, but with greenhushing of details
  • Greencrowding: substandard disclosure en masse
  • Greenrinsing: headline-grabbing targets get gradually diluted

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[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Which is why we need better regulations for things like the environment. We can't expect every consumer to make the best decisions, even if they want to they may be confined by money or other issues.

Things like disposable vapes are a good example of something awful for the environment but irresistible to many consumers. They have small batteries, are filled with chemicals, and coated with plastic. They need more regulations to prevent their litter from causing problems. We cannot rely on the consumers to make these choices as a vape pen is an addiction to many consumers.