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Earth's clouds are shrinking, boosting global warming

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157 points Helmut10001 | 1 comments | 05 Apr 25 12:08 UTC | HN request time: 1.16s | source
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kacesensitive ◴[05 Apr 25 13:16 UTC] No.43593217[source]▶
Earth gets over 170,000 terawatts of solar energy every day—10,000 times more than humanity uses. Losing just a fraction of our cloud cover means a massive, invisible throttle is coming off the climate system. If this trend holds, we’re not just warming—we’re stepping on the gas.
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amazingamazing ◴[05 Apr 25 13:50 UTC] No.43593530[source]▶
These types of comments are pointless. We are destroying the world. Ok. What’s the solution? All involve pain, but no one wants to talk about that. Tech isn’t going to solve it. For one, the kind of person on this site is contributing literally 10000x more to the issue than the worlds bottom, so we can start there.

People love tech solutions, because then they don’t have to stop consuming and live modestly.

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1. shrubby ◴[05 Apr 25 14:20 UTC] No.43593754[source]▶
We'd be well net neutral and way positive on the just/unjust scale with just two fucking changes.

Get rid of the millionaires excessive destructive power (both structural/political and the personal excessive consumption) and by eliminating factory animal agriculture.

Neither would diminish well-being. At least the actual. Some ego/envy issues though as narcissistic "successful" people couldn't feel their power, but I'm willing to sacrifice that for my kids future.

The benefits are many fold as per Durkheim and more recently Wilkinson and Pickett have shown us.

Easy peasy guys.