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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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Human ‘behavioural crisis’ at root of climate breakdown, say scientists (www.theguardian.com)
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Record heat, record emissions, record fossil fuel consumption. One month out from Cop28, the world is further than ever from reaching its collective climate goals. At the root of all these problems, according to recent research, is the human “behavioural crisis”, a term coined by an interdisciplinary team of scientists.

“We’ve socially engineered ourselves the way we geoengineered the planet,” says Joseph Merz, lead author of a new paper which proposes that climate breakdown is a symptom of ecological overshoot, which in turn is caused by the deliberate exploitation of human behaviour.

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[–] Candelestine@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Fight the next war, not the last war.

The authors suggest the best strategy to counter overshoot would be to use the tools of the marketing, media and entertainment industries

The last one led to enormous backlash, in case nobody noticed. It certainly can be done, but it needs to be approached by a good artist, not a good political activist. Those are simply not the same skillset, which is highly noticeable in the final product. So, if you're not like, really, really good at your artistic medium, find someone who is and let them write the script. Just trust them when they say the message is in there, it may be couched in a way too complex for you to see without the same training and experience they had.

That first one is where the real money is. Nobody can actually fight advertising, except by disconnecting from it completely. If, by way of example, De Beers can convince everyone that diamonds are part of romance with a marketing campaign, then the same tool can probably undo it. Don't expect De Beers to take that laying down though, they have money and lawyers.