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We need to do a lot of things, not just change food production. We should do all of these things, not just change food production. I'm not sure why people are s
by nesadi 7y ago
We need to do a lot of things, not just change food production. We should do all of these things, not just change food production. I'm not sure why people are so laser focused on cattle when we need to make drastic cuts everywhere. This isn't an either-or. This isn't optional. "Preferences" are irrelevant when it's between an uninhabitable earth for large parts of the human population and a habitable one.
I'd love to own a car and I'd love to eat 500g of beef everyday, but that's utterly unsustainable, so I don't.
- avip 7y agoThe report is about land use, not CC mitigation in general. Also, the beef problem is conceivably solvable. It’s the lowest-hanging fruit around.
- nesadi 7y agoIt's no more easily solvable than transportation or travel habits or any number of other sources of GHG. I think you underestimate how hard it will be to force people to change their eating habits significantly, but it's a change that needs to be made, just like a lot of other changes.
- AstralStorm 7y agoSurprisingly easy. Just make it extremely expensive and most people will switch to Indian kind of diet. (Or Chinese before extreme availability of poultry.)
- nesadi 7y agoYou could do the same for a lot of things. And it still isn't as easy as you're imagining. Just look at Americans screaming about freedoms and gun ownership. It's the same clusterfuck. Pretending it's otherwise is just delusional.