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.
Not loving that the exact source of the data in this graph is not clearly linked in the description.
I thought pork was red meat
Sure, but like ~8 companies produce like 75% of the pollution. Their biggest con was shifting the responsibility to individuals to change their habits instead of forcing them to clean up their factories
so how many burgers do I skip to compensate for one of Musk’s jet joy rides?
I get that individuals aren’t the problem impact wise but couldn’t it be the case that if the majority of people life a more sustainable life it will be easier to create laws that put stop the real poluters bc people are in support of such regulations?! If the majority of people think the existence of billionaires is immoral, it will be easier to tax the rich…
I thought it was overthrowing oppressive world governments and holding environmentally-damaging businesses accountable for their actions, hm.
When populations are starving to death in 2044, pat yourself on the back for not eating red meat.
Cute.
I’d be more interested in adding private and commercial airliners, long-haul trucks and tanker ships to the list for comparison.Hello, I would like to place one order of Kaczynski
That’s almost certainly the biggest dietary change you can make.
But for overall impact, there’s one winner and it’s bigger than everything else put together.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/12/want-to-fight-climate-change-have-fewer-children
Capitalism hates this one weird trick.
How much less red meat to offset all the private jet that flew to Venice for bezos’ wedding?
I have a motorbike I use infrequently, I eat red meat rarely, and I have no children. I feel like I’m doing my part.
Do billionaires count as red meat? I am asking for a friend.
YSK this is BS. You ain’t gonna stop corporate-created climate issues by eating one or two fewer cows. In fact, nothing you can do, will.
It’s never about personal responsibility. You can smug about not eating red meat, driving electric or not having children, but it doesn’t change the reality: the climate is changing.
