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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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The 'recycled' plastic in your shoes, shirts, and bags? It’s still destined for the landfill. (grist.org)
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[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Reiterating what everyone already said, but what is the thinking process in the article?

Obviously it's better to re-use plastic at least once, even if it can't be recycled afterwards.

And at that point I wanna shamelessly plug an add for the footwear brand 'Wasted'
They are holding up since 2 years now, although they are the only shoes I pretty much ever wear. And (after a few minutes of airing out) they still smell like new, while all other typical high priced brands start to stink after a few months, if worn daily, and especially their glue starts to fall apart, so I can't really fix them, because even if I put in new glue, it will be different and they will gonna be awkward to walk in.

The Wasted ones I got hold up perfectly and are produced seemingly nicely and fair.
Can't recommend them enough :⁠-⁠)