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Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.

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All of this has just been distraction (climatejustice.social)

submitted 2 years ago by Masimatutu@lemm.ee to c/climate@slrpnk.net

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[–] nyoooom@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Directly, pollution is responsible for quite a surplus of deaths in densely populated areas.

Apart from that the CO2 isn't that much to have a significant effect on us.

Also microplastics, sadly.

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[–] arin@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

People are dumber with higher CO2 concentrations. No joke bring a brilliant person and they will struggle. This is why we need good ventilation in classrooms because it can get stuffy(low O2 and high CO2)

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[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

How high of a ppm do you need to get that effect?

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[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 point 2 years ago*

The government started pollution so people would get dumber and not question it

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