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> The major driver of climate change is energy production and transport. We can reduce our impact by limiting those first, before we get to the food we eat. It
by chimprich 8y ago
> The major driver of climate change is energy production and transport. We can reduce our impact by limiting those first, before we get to the food we eat.
It's not logical to say we need to tackle the biggest problems first before tackling the smaller problems. Tackling the easier problems first, or tackling as many problems as we can simultaneously makes more sense.
It's also wrong to imply that food is not a major contributor to climate change. It's hard to compare (because of methane emissions v CO2 emissions, food is transported on vehicles etc.) but it looks like food production is similar in impact to transport.
> Why would we first limit a fundamental need
Eating food is a fundamental need, but not eating meat.
- YeGoblynQueenne 8y agoWell, changing the way people eat is much harder than changing their use of technology. It's not just that it's a larger problem- it's also harder, like you say. Of course farming uses transport, just as everything else does. But the emissions from transporting food come from transport vehicles. I don't see how these must be assigned to farming. If we reduce transport emissions, we'll reduce all transport emissions, including those from transporting food. If we only reduce emissions from farming we'll still have to deal with transport emissions. In any case, going by the graphs on this wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas#Anthropogenic_greenhouse_gases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas#Anthropogenic_g... - It really looks like a clear majority of total emissions is from energy production, transport and industry.