Climate activism has intensified in the past few years as the planet warms to dangerous levels, igniting more extreme heat, floods, storms and wildfires around the world.
The 1% do more damage to the planet than consumer habits could ever hope up mitigate.
If you feel better making what you see as more sustainable life choices I fully support it and more power to you. But the reality is that it doesn’t matter whether or not we eat meat, sort your recycling, or bring our canvas bags to the grocery store.
You mean the half of humanity without clean water, reliable electricity, and certainly no Internet emits less CO2 than the top 10% (630M!) wealthiest people in the entire world? There are not 630M Billionaires. There are not even 630M Millionaires. An income of $80-100k puts you at 10% worldwide.
Sure, go right ahead. Tell the family with an income of $80k that they need to cut out their use of private jets and mega yachts. That’ll fix climate change right up.
If you change the mind of one billionaire and you’ll have reached the same result as a million of ordinary people. But he’s got you convinced your mission is to punch down.
Climate doomerism at it’s finest. If everyone waits for the biggest polluters to stop before they do anything we’ll never get anywhere.
Also fuck this CNBC article for comparing their collection of billionaires to France which is one of the most nuclear powered countries and appears like a big western country but doesn’t have nearly the emissions of the US.
Finally, the climate impact of meat is well known one cited study suggests the average American can save a good amount of carbon emissions by going plant based. Sure it’s not a large percentage of total emissions but those emissions aren’t going away even if billionaires do. The solution is both creating policy that stops the ultra rich from polluting so much as well as personally reducing emissions from consumption in everyday life.
Eat this food that’s made in a way that causes a lot of environmental problems
Eat this food that’s made by the same company, except it claims it’s vegan, hides the fact it’s the same company by using 10 middle-men, but has great marketing
Eat this actually environmentally friendly food. Wait, scratch that, you’re too poor to actually eat this regularly
The polluting corporations all sell consumer goods.
and we NEED to demand that they are made using green energy. The price incentives offered by the US government now are so fucking insane that the only thing keeping these companies from making a change is whatever fossil companies can offer them.
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You fell for the propaganda.
The 1% do more damage to the planet than consumer habits could ever hope up mitigate.
If you feel better making what you see as more sustainable life choices I fully support it and more power to you. But the reality is that it doesn’t matter whether or not we eat meat, sort your recycling, or bring our canvas bags to the grocery store.
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It’s understandable that you are overestimating your own impact.
https://www.iea.org/commentaries/the-world-s-top-1-of-emitters-produce-over-1000-times-more-co2-than-the-bottom-1
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/carbon-emissions-richest-1-percent-more-double-emissions-poorest-half-humanity
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/08/billionaires-emit-a-million-times-more-greenhouse-gases-than-the-average-person-oxfam.html
You mean the half of humanity without clean water, reliable electricity, and certainly no Internet emits less CO2 than the top 10% (630M!) wealthiest people in the entire world? There are not 630M Billionaires. There are not even 630M Millionaires. An income of $80-100k puts you at 10% worldwide.
Sure, go right ahead. Tell the family with an income of $80k that they need to cut out their use of private jets and mega yachts. That’ll fix climate change right up.
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If you change the mind of one billionaire and you’ll have reached the same result as a million of ordinary people. But he’s got you convinced your mission is to punch down.
Climate doomerism at it’s finest. If everyone waits for the biggest polluters to stop before they do anything we’ll never get anywhere.
Also fuck this CNBC article for comparing their collection of billionaires to France which is one of the most nuclear powered countries and appears like a big western country but doesn’t have nearly the emissions of the US.
Finally, the climate impact of meat is well known one cited study suggests the average American can save a good amount of carbon emissions by going plant based. Sure it’s not a large percentage of total emissions but those emissions aren’t going away even if billionaires do. The solution is both creating policy that stops the ultra rich from polluting so much as well as personally reducing emissions from consumption in everyday life.
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Lol okay chump
Ok, I’ll give you a choice!
What great choices you have!
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what your suggesting takes time and equipment (and some experience with seasoning). the time alone can make it cost-prohibitive.
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many people still cannot afford it, no matter how your arrange the facts.
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many people get meat for free or heavily subsidized.
Many of the poorer people can’t really afford beef regularly, it’s more of a once-a-year-treat. Source: Used to be very poor when I was a kid.
money isn’t the only cost, there is also the matter of time. no amount of money saving would add more time to my day.
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and we NEED to demand that they are made using green energy. The price incentives offered by the US government now are so fucking insane that the only thing keeping these companies from making a change is whatever fossil companies can offer them.
Just … You already know what you have to eat to mitigate this horror. And it ain’t plants, friend.
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I mean…you could