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.
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.
Populations are starving to death right now. From climate change and other stuff.
The media doesn’t consider anything a catastrophe until a rich person dies.
We aren’t the media.
We’re living in a catastophe.
We can do both.
I doubt it. They’re arresting families in the street and funding genocide while we just keep posting memes from the toilet. I’m not sure society has a line in the sand anymore.
Person sitting idly: People aren’t going to sit idly!
So stop sitting idly. Join a DSA chapter: DSA; Sign up for the general strike: The General Strike
People have done the personal responsibility thing since I was a kid at least, it just doesn’t work if there are no global rules who enforces it in some way (laws, prices, …)
You don’t have to wait. Sudan, Yemen, Gaza, Haiti, Chad, Afghanistan, Syria… All undergoing starvation level famines right now.