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I'm curios how this compares to what Bjorn Lomborg [1] (with a longer explanation [2]) and other researchers found that going completely vegetarian accounted fo
by anarchimedes 8y ago
I'm curios how this compares to what Bjorn Lomborg [1] (with a longer explanation [2]) and other researchers found that going completely vegetarian accounted for a modest decrease (-2%) in energy consumption and (-4%) carbon footprint [3].
I keep seeing articles like this one and wondering if collectively we are low on ideas of how to effectively tackle climate change when the focus turns to exaggerating the effects at the margins.
[1] https://twitter.com/BjornLomborg/status/1058336665788448770 https://twitter.com/BjornLomborg/status/1058336665788448770
[2] https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/meat-production-overstated-effect-on-climate-change-by-bjorn-lomborg-2018-11 https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/meat-production...
[3] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800915002153 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092180091...