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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://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-beef-industry-fueling-amazon-rainforest-destruction-deforestation/

https://e360.yale.edu/features/marcel-gomes-interview

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2023-06-02/almost-a-billion-trees-felled-to-feed-appetite-for-brazilian-beef

If you don't have a car and rarely eat red meat, you are doing GREAT πŸ™Œ πŸ™Œ

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. Also, don't drive yourself crazy. If you are only an ordinary citizen, remember that perfect is the enemy of good.

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I've been the bane of chickens all my life...

[–] jaykrown@lemmy.world 2 points 19 minutes ago

I stopped eating beef about 4 years ago. It was a great decision. I much prefer pork/poultry anyway.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 47 minutes ago

If you don't have a car and rarely eat red meat

To be fair, only one of these is a choice in many parts of the world.

[–] sndmn@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

You forgot number one: By far, the best thing you can do for the climate is not have children.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Increasing the bag limit on "billionaire" to something greater than "0" would have a much more appreciable effect on the climate than a thousand families forgoing children.

[–] lemsip@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I am so confused by this comment.

What's a bag limit? Why would you apply it to the word "billionaire", and why would increasing the limit help the climate?

Are you saying billionaires should use less bags? Because I doubt that would help more than having 1000+ less humans on this planet.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] lemsip@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 hours ago

Thanks. Never heard that term before so I thought you were talking about plastic bags and worded it weird as fuck lol.

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[–] blue_skull@lemmy.world 21 points 3 hours ago (7 children)

I could devote all my time to recycling, reducing carbon emissions, not driving, voting, not eating red meat, including forcing everyone i know to do the same - and the net result would be an iota of a drop in the ocean of change. i.e. nothing.

As others have said, until there is a global shift on how the world operates and the major oil companies, cruise lines, and airlines all shut down, nothing you or i can do will matter.

[–] LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Airlines, cruise lined oil companies are not immutable forces of nature. They have grown to their current size to meet the demand of individuals like you and me who want to buy shit and go places.

If everyone stopped flying, passenger airlines would be out of business and no longer flying planes within a year or two. Same with cruise companies. Oil is used in more things but if everyone switched to EVs or stopped driving oil production would go way down- even more if we cut our plastic usage as well.

Don't fall into the trap of thinking consumers are powerless. In a free market economy they are very powerful- that's why boycotts can be so effective.

[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

Seriously. Some people here are so happy they’ve found the β€œperfect” justification for their apathy and inaction.

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[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Unless there's an oil exec that lives nearby.

A quarter of emissions is nothing? Yeah the overwhelming majority is attributable to major oil companies, but you're just being lazy and fatalistic. But sure, just sit there and wait for a paradigm shift to come save you from yourself I guess. Literally the first two search results I found:

https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-is-eating-meat-bad-for-the-environment/a-63595148 https://www.c2es.org/content/regulating-transportation-sector-carbon-emissions/

[–] wampus@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, cruise lines opening back up and returning to business as usual after COVID, basically made me stop paying attention to a lot of this individual-targeted climate change stuff. That was a perfect and fairly natural way to end that high pollution luxury oriented industry, but everyone basically said "boomers still like cruising, so fuck the planet".

If boomers and rich people can continue to pollute at incredible rates, just give me my stupid plastic straw back. At least that way I can drink a full mlikshake before my straw turns into paper mache, while I watch the world burn.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 5 points 3 hours ago (5 children)

I don't think we should give up on reasonable direct action but going after what people eat when there is the elephant in the room like flying and toursim generally along with crusies... It is kinda insulting to the poors IMHO

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[–] fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Right but you have to begin somewhere, and being a good example for others certainly helps as well.

I try to change my life such that it doesn't impact me much while having fairly large effect. For instance I'm basically vegan (still eat meat occasionally, e.g. when it's otherwise thrown away), I even don't want to eat meat anymore, the taste just got worse for me over time.

It also has effects on the market, e.g. Meat replacement products are quite affordable and popular.

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 3 hours ago

people need to get over the idea of not earting farmed bugs, its more efficient and eco-friendly.

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[–] fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Looks slightly off TBH, sources? Nuts being lowest, while Palm oil being quite high. Nuts are efficient, especially when considering caloric value, but I'm pretty sure something like a potato is better per kg. Palm oil AFAIK is a very efficient (most efficient vegetable) oil, might be that the destruction of highly carbon rich forest is factored in there maybe...

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

indonesian forests are f'uped from all those plantations. brazil/amazon is destroying the amazon for chinese consumption of cows. all these are jungle/tropical area which hold mega biodiversity, many plants are undiscovered, and such, and some are so rare(mycoheterotrophs, parasitic) that they can easily be wiped out.

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[–] SpaceCheeseWizard@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Coffee is a big one for me along with cheese. I'm waiting for cheese to get better with vegan alternatives, the last time I tried shredded vegan cheese it melted and tasted like plastic, although that was 3 years ago now, and I am willing to try again.

Coffee is something I think can be helped if people were more picky on what brands they chose from. I do not believe Starbucks is the most sustainable coffee brand, as they trained me when I worked there to believe.

[–] stickly@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I wonder how chicory (and optional caffeine pill?) emissions stack up against the coffee equivalent. It's close enough to coffee for me 🀷

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[–] imTIREDnhungryboss@lemmy.ml 14 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

or eat the wealthy is a better start

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 hours ago

I heard it would be better for our health to compost the wealthy and eat the crops that grow.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 5 points 3 hours ago

May Luigi bless them all

Looks like the traditional Irish diet of potatoes, root veg, and onions is carbon-friendly af.

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