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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Jesus. None of this actually matters, the cargo ships dwarf the output of a continent.
The entire worlds cargo ships emit 3% of the planets GHG emissions.
Animal agriculture is 15-20%. It's equal to the ENTIRE transport sector (cars, trucks, boats, planes etc).
As a consumer you can't easily change your cargo ship usage, or cars or planes, but you can absolutely change your diet, literally today.
I did! And I grew up on a dairy farm in rural NZ.
Oh look a Lying Fuckwit appears.
all of agriculture is only about 20%. animal agriculture is just a facet of that
Hahaha why do people just spout complete bullshit like they know anything.
A Poore and Nemeck 2008 meta-analysis covering 38,000 farms in 119 countries found that food systems contribute 26% of the planets GHG emissions, of which ~57% comes from animal ag. Meaning this study found ~15% of the entire planets GHG comes from animal ag.
Don't forget, 70% of the food we grow is fed directly to farm animals instead of humans.
Stop spewing bullshit and look up the data?
poore-nemecek 2018 found no such thing.
I'm guessing this is your alt account huh. Because your last one got banned? Still speaking with the same monosyllabic single sentence "no-u" I see.
you are lying about the findings of a study and now making things up about other users. please seek help.
Not going to claim it really matters that much. Everyone chooses their own principles and battles to make themselves feel better. We try to cut out as much meat as possible.
Beef, because it pollutes the most globally.
Most pork because they're clever and the nitrate pollution in my particular part of the world due to pig manure threatens the local ground water
So our chicken consumption went up a bit, but mostly the tofu consumption. Doesn't mean we're religious or even the least bit of preachy about it, god I hate those ppl. But it makes you feel better if you think you're at least a bit in control of some things. Like your own diet.
IDK why you're getting downvoted, a large cargo ship can emit the same amount of co2 as 50 million cars https://maritimepage.com/cargo-ship-co2-emissions/
Perhaps the people downvoting you are the same kind of people without a sense of proportion, who think that turning off an LED light bulb saves the environment.
It could also be that you don't provide a solution. So here it goes: want to cut co2? Buy locally produced goods. If you live in the northern hemisphere strawberries aren't in season in January, and it's a good chance that neither are tomatoes or avocado.
My solution might involve genociding redditors and every second lemmy "genius"
IDK why you’re getting downvoted
I mean, your own source debunks what the previous poster implied ....