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Well except that meat is a much larger factor in global warming than anything else in our diet. You can't just choose to not participate in modern industrial li

• pier25 9y ago
  The hard truth is that energy consumption is the biggest factor in global warning. The second one is deforestation. The third one is industry. https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emissions-data https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emiss...
  • dashundchen 9y ago
    That is not what your link says at all. The second largest category is animal agriculture and forestry at 24% of global GHG emissions, the largest is power at 25%. https://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_id=29892 https://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?artic... Animal agriculture is extremely destructive. Forestry being in that category, one of the biggest causes of deforestation is expansion of cattle grazing and feed lands, especially in the Amazon.
    • pier25 9y ago
      Read the small letters please. > Greenhouse gas emissions from this sector come mostly from agriculture (cultivation of crops and livestock) and deforestation. This estimate does not include the CO2 that ecosystems remove from the atmosphere by sequestering carbon in biomass, dead organic matter, and soils, which offset approximately 20% of emissions from this sector. Not only the number includes crop agriculture, but also deforestation is caused by quite a large number of factors.
      • dashundchen 9y ago
        Estimated 80% of the GHG emissions in deforestation to be caused by animal ag. It's important to understand the claims your making if you're going to state that animal again is not a significant portion of that 24%. As much as it seems like you'd like to deny, animal agriculture is a substatial driver of man made climate change. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120925091608.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120925091608.h...
• herbst 9y ago
  > You can't just choose to not participate in modern industrial life Why not? Try to not be part of the throwaway culture, avoid falling for gimmicks and new toys and try to build a environmental Friendly lifestyle. It's not perfect but it's perfectly possible to escape the modern lifestyle to a huge degree
  • soared 9y ago
    OP was talking about internet, cars, travelling, AC, refrigerators, etc. not about consumerism. You can definitely not participate in consumerism, but you'd still be using much more electricity than anyone 50 years ago.
  • rleigh 9y ago
    Why not? Because while a small number of individuals can make the choice, humanity as a whole can not. We can certainly reduce needless waste, but without industrial food production most of the planet would quickly starve, and that's not an acceptable option. We don't need to like the situation, but there are simply too many people to make non-industrial production of food and other material needs possible.