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.
The fact this can happen is maddening. But what's to stop a government from going "dang that's crazy," and not cooperating in any part of the process, including paying.
The most recent episode of the Deconstructed podcast was all about the ISDS. I can't believe I'd never heard of this before.
https://theintercept.com/2023/10/20/deconstructed-corporations-democracy-silent-coup/
Guys, you know we are the ones who made those laws. These were not imposed by aliens, and we can just ignore them, like amazon ignores workers rights for example.
We just dont want to.
Throw it on the pile of "why humanity will get what it deserves" So when the alien archaeologists find it they'll know what happened to us.