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.
What about not having children?
Yup. Having kids is an order of magnitude worse for the environment than anything else you could do to lower your carbon footprint.
Unethical pro tip: mass shootings are good for the environment
Just came from another discussion about Cara killing the same number of people as guns do in Chicago, so by that logic: cars are good for the environment too.
Ohhh that is an interesting one, how low do traffic safety regulations need to be before cars become a net positive?
If people who care about climate don’t have children, there will be less people who try to put laws in place the help the situation.
I’m not sure not wanting to die in a food root is a gene.
Isn’t it egotistical to expect that your child will hold the same beliefs as you?