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While not giving up entirely, I feel like many people, if presented with facts, would be willing to greatly reduce their consumption.
by palae 6y ago
While not giving up entirely, I feel like many people, if presented with facts, would be willing to greatly reduce their consumption.
- achenatx 6y agooh the naïveté of youth... The easiest way to reduce meat/fish consumption is to make the cost reflect all the externalities.
- brendoelfrendo 6y agoSo, I agree with this in theory, but how does this work in practice? To stick with the topic of seafood, it's just out there in the ocean; as long as it exists in fish-able quantities, people will fish and fish until there's none left. Pricing in externalities would be huge for the US, but it would need to happen on a global scale to make a difference.
- kickout 6y agoThen also make the airlines price seats to pay for externalities. I bet people won't be flying as much if the seat cost $5000 instead of $500 to pay for damage to environment. Don't single out ag. Tech and transportation are just as bad. At least with agriculture, it produces food.
- albemuth 6y ago> if presented with facts, would be willing to... Now that is SF
- hutzlibu 6y agoNo, it is not. People just choose not to see the facts. People do not want to know where their food comes from as they suspect it would be not good to know as changing habits is hard and they have lots of other stuff going on to take care of. But once they have seen movies like "we feed the world" they do care at least a bit.
- ianleeclark 6y agoNo, the answer you'll get has an 85% chance of being, to the word, "Oh, I don't think I could ever give up bacon." I know that answer might seem a little far-fetched, but it will happen time and time again. Facts don't really change anything when they're easy to ignore.