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There's overwhelming US support for action on our climate. Why that hasn't mattered.

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There's overwhelming US support for action on our climate. Why that hasn't mattered.

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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 1 year ago

Opinion | New polls show we aren't NIMBYs on solar and wind power

It would be easy to blame America’s inaction on loud right-wing climate deniers in Congress. But the media deserve blame, too.

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Real reason: Our country is owned by big business and they don’t want to make uncomfortable changes.

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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: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

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