• Alenalda@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        Fun fact, the hottest planet in our solarsystem isn’t the one closest to the sun mercury. Sure it’s hot, but it has no atmosphere to trap that heat. Venus has an atmosphere made up of mainly carbon dioxide which does traps that heat. Guess what we’re dumping into out atmosphere at alarming rates.

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          Fun fact, most of the time, Mercury is the closest planet to Earth, due to its shorter orbit.

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      I defend that simply doing what is needed to clean up all the shit we have left behind up to now, let alone prevention, energy transition, moving to biodegradable plastics, mass transit, etc, would create immense economic growth. It’s essentially the fossil fuels cartel, and their political minions who keep us here.

      Maybe if all of the renewable sector pooled together to lobby as hard as the fossils, there could be advances.