We need to stop eating beef. The fact that no one thinks that if they stop eating beef they won’t have any effect is disturbing as fuck. If everyone stops eating beef then the industry will collapse.
The fact that I don’t see this graph more often is annoying, I hate having to keep bringing this up, someone else share this for fucks sake please.
Seriously. Animal agriculture needs to end and not exist whether we live in a capitalist dystopia or communist utopia, for the environment and for the sake of all sentient beings
The fact that you and I got downvotes just speaks massive volumes. We might not make it as a species because we have so many individuals who think it doesn’t matter either way. WE ALL PLAY A FUCKING ROLE, TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR DECISIONS IN YOUR LIFE TIME.
If the people that exclusively eat meat just reduces to a few times a week would do wonders.
Also concerning how many tons of beef products I’ve tossed due to mold in food production. Large-scale manufacturing has so many holes we could fill if only it was profitable for the companies to do so.
Usually my neighbor slaughters one or two oxen per year. In summer they’re on land that I own, in winter they’re fed grass he’s mowing on some other meadows of his own. When all is said and done, he gets about 30€ per kg for the meat to cover the costs.
This reduces meat to a mixture luxury for the weekend and this is with basically with the least amount of costs possible. The only things that are paid in this chain of production is the tractor for mowing grass, the vet, the butcher and insurance and taxes for the land and the stable in winter. I can’t (well, I can) imagine how the meat industry manages to hit a third of the price or less.
I agree meat is a luxury. If we look historically, farm meat was common at the table of the wealthy, but sparring at the table of the common man. It’s often made me wonder about the sustainabity of hunted meats if we were to treat meat as a luxury item reserved for celebrations. It seems like there’s quite the potential for carbon offset according to this article: Wild meat consumption in tropical forests spares a significant carbon footprint from the livestock production sector. The article also seems to suggest in this context a necesity of more and larger reforesting/rewilding efforts. I skimmed through this, so if there’s contradiction I missed please comment.
We coukd start by not replacing meat eating pet’s when they pass,this fetisihization of pets is bizzare. The US uses more meat for pet dogs then all of the meat conumed in Germany as one example.
That aside, we could start with banning advertising, private jets, cruise ships, jet skis, flying, motocross bikes, private cars etc why ? Some poor dude being told to stop eating a burger isn’t going to take anyone seriously if Gate’s etal are still flying around in a private jet and folks are jetting around the world to see a Taylor Swift concert.
https://skepticalscience.com/animal-agriculture-meat-global-warming.htm
The burning of fossil fuels for electricity and heat accounts for the majority of greenhouse gas emissions, totaling 31% of annual global greenhouse gas emissions, followed by transportation at 15%, manufacturing at 12.4% and animal agriculture at 11%
I’m not nearly as worried about carbon dioxide as I am methane. Not eating beef is much easier than not burning fossil fuels.
Lithium and Cobalt are still primarily mined via slave labor.
Green energy is still blood-soaked colonialism.
Damn guess we have a choice between slavery and carbon emissions, with literally no other options
Thanks to our current economic system. At least slave labor is not a problem of the technology itself.
Alright. Sodium ion then.
But-- if you stop deforestation, rapid growth and poor working conditions for low-paid labourers, the economy will slow and I might have to invest more of my personal time in farming, instead of enjoying my farming sim!
I agree. As a metaphor, we have to fix the foundation or the house is destined to collapse. Don’t get me wrong, clean energy is an important step. I approve of people trying to help, even if that attempt may unfortunately be rooted in personal greed. The problem is people are using that help to obfuscate the root issues, which are hierarchy and capitalism. Ignorance isn’t bliss. It’s death.
Downvoting for the ‘tip us into ecological disaster’.
Please anyone correct me if I’m wrong but from what I understand clean energy will slow that disaster down, not tip us into it.
Hmm? The text says that a growth-obsessed economy will tip is into ecological disaster, which is true.
Clean energy is able to somewhat solve the problems of fossil fuel. However they do not solve other environmental problems like a massive crisis in soil depletion from industrial agriculture, over fishing, pesticides and many other things destroying biodiversity and so forth. The only way we can solve those is by using earths resources better. Since economic growth and resource consumption are linked, that means we have no chance of solving those problems, if we continue to grow our economy no matter what. That is also true for the climate crisis, but clean energy helps.
“clean energy” . . . :)
this idea of “clean” electricity seems to makes people think they can use as much electricity as they like even when its marginally all generated with gas or coal…Like a 30-50% “clean” grid can magically double in capacity to accomodate every cnts tesla charging and new heating loads without more fossil fuel gen.
“oh that doesn’t matter it will be 100% renewable soon.”
" oh what no, I didn’t mean you can build a nuclear powerstation there, can’t they build it in india or china or africa and ship the power to us?"
“no matter, we’ll invent cold fusion soon”The difference between average vs marginal generation is something that a lot of electricity proselytes want to handwave away in order to keep selling energy intensive lifestyle and aspirations.
Its much harder to sell people a modest life, or a lower energy inensity - or a lower population density.
You want high population density as it makes sharing resources easier. The per capita emissions of a Londoner are at 3.3t. However UK is at 6t.
Also some processes make sense to be moved to the grid, even when they increase electricity generation. EVs are lower emissions then a petrol engine, even with coal electricity.
Otherwise a decrease in consumption is key. However only to a level, where we can provide the basics for everybody. Right now that means we also need more green tech.
not globally
yes!
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Sustainability is absolutely impossible to achieve through capitalism, even if you instantly murder most all of the population, because of the very nature of how it views growth. It sees accumulation as being over wisdom and health, when it even considers the latter to be growth at all. Population is the way it is because of capitalism. Worse yet, we as a species are forced to do unethical reduction through war/murder/whatever if nature doesn’t take care of it for us, because of this “need” for constant accumulation. It’s a bad system. Don’t hate the player if you aren’t going to hate the game.
