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Well, by that argument, all economic activity of any description is bad for the environment. Paying anyone to do anything ever is bad. In fact, just being alive
by dTal 8y ago
Well, by that argument, all economic activity of any description is bad for the environment. Paying anyone to do anything ever is bad. In fact, just being alive is bad. Anyone who talks a big talk about the environment without immediately reducing their carbon footprint by committing suicide is a hypocrite.
Which may well be true! But then it seems unfair to single out eating in a restaurant - given that the other humans already exist whether you buy the meal or not, it doesn't seem especially bad in the scheme of things you could be paying someone to do.
- toasterlovin 8y agoYou're putting words in my mouth. The key fact about eating at restaurants is that you don't need other people to prepare food for you in order to eat. You can make food for yourself. That is not true of most other consumption. But speaking of consumption, the best thing most people can do for the environment is to reduce consumption. And the easiest way to know whether you've achieved that is to just spend less money on everything you buy. Buy a used car instead of new. Take a road trip instead of traveling via plane. Make more food yourself. Eat more grains and less leafy greens. Eat more chicken and less beef. Etc.