I wouldn’t be surprised if half of everything you own includes some form of plastic. Phones, cars, appliances, even clothing is made from petroleum.There’s a LOT of things that could be replaced with non-petroleum products (like textiles) but there’s also some fields like medical equipment that we should be saving our reserves for.
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:
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