YSK that apart from not having a car and voting, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat.
YSK that apart from not having a car and voting, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat.
Red meat has a huge carbon footprint because cattle requires a large amount of land and water.
https://sph.tulane.edu/climate-and-food-environmental-impact-beef-consumption
Demand for steaks and burgers is the primary driver of Deforestation:
https://e360.yale.edu/features/marcel-gomes-interview
If you don't have a car and rarely eat red meat, you are doing GREAT 🙌🙌 🙌
Sure, you can drink tap water instead of plastic water. You can switch to Tea. You can travel by train. You can use Linux instead of Windows AI's crap. Those are great ideas. But, don't drive yourself crazy. If you are only an ordinary citizen, remember that perfect is the enemy of good.
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Also not having kids. Strange how that one is left out.
Considering this is about food that humans eat it makes sense that they don't include children on this chart.
Unless you're living in a candy house in the middle of the woods, then yeah, you have a point.
Well the post tile says "other than not having a car and voting" which are also not about food.
I get the linked article is about food, but OP worded the post in such a way that it's just factually incorrect
The title mentions not owning a car and voting, that’s not in the chart either.
You can drive 12 hummers powered by crude oil and eat steak every day at not have even a fraction of the impact of just one child. Having one less child results in a ecological-footprint reduction equivalent to 58.6 tonnes of CO2 a year. By contrast, living car-free saves 2.4 tonnes a year, eating a plant-based diet saves 0.82 tonnes a year.
Not reproducing is the single most impactful thing you can do for the environment by a huge margin.
Not reproducing is the single most impactful thing you can do for the environment by a huge margin.
Can you compare that with large container ships, commercial and private planes, coal plants...?
Do you own a large container ship, coal plant or private plane?
Oh ho, I see, I didn't realize children aren't human and they don't eat. My bad.
Well the actual best thing you can do is kill as many people as you can and then yourself.
Watched the news in say, the last three years? The end of growth means people revert to type: impulsive, savage animals killing each other over tribal allegiances and god myths. I don't need to do a thing.
Noooooo! You must breed little consumers!