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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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Millions of tons of plastics from end-of-life vehicles are wasted each year. Here are 4 ways to fix the problem. (www.weforum.org)
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  • Over 800,000 metric tons of plastic from end-of-life vehicles in Europe end up in landfills or incinerators each year.
  • However, despite the automotive industry’s sustainability commitments, less than 20% of these plastics are recycled.
  • The Global Impact Coalition's Automotive Plastics Circularity project is working on recycling ELV plastics more efficiently.

Ways listed:

  1. Rethinking the value chain: from waste to resource.
  2. Regulatory incentives: setting the right targets.
  3. Advancing recycling technologies: from limitation to innovation.
  4. Financing circularity: sharing the cost, sharing the benefits.
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)
  1. Stop building everything around cars so people can choose not to buy a car.
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Hold up, only solutions that keep making the oil billionaires more billions

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

This too!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Screw sharing the cost: include the disposal costs as a tax on the vehicle