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And that's why I'm vegetarian, buy the few non-vegan products I eat entirely locally, buy produce in season, mostly locally, don't have a car, have never flown,
by kuschku 6y ago
And that's why I'm vegetarian, buy the few non-vegan products I eat entirely locally, buy produce in season, mostly locally, don't have a car, have never flown, instead take the train or my bicycle everywhere, refuse to use cabs/taxis, try to keep my consumption down, and focus extremely on energy efficiency in stuff I buy (our new apartment uses a total of only 32W total for all lighting, plus 20W for all christmas decoration, we don't leave any devices on standby, etc, and we're in the process of switching the power company to a green one).
But the extreme choices I made aren't necessary to fix the world: If every person in the top 10% globally (that means you, the reader of this comment) would cut down their meat consumption by half, we'd already have saved the rainforests, and significantly reduced climate change
- pelasaco 6y ago"Me as a vegan" https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2w4ggh https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2w4ggh
- kuschku 6y agoIf you'd have actually read my comment til the end, you would understand why diet is actually important if we're talking about deforestation and climate change, and can't just be ignored. There's two ways this story goes, humanity decides to consume less meat in the future, or climate change forces humanity to eat less meat in the future. There's no other option out of this, the current situation is absolutely unsustainable. If your burn down chart says you'll be broke in 5 months, then you can either spend less, or you'll be forced to spend less once you're insolvent. There's no way to continue down that path forever.
- pelasaco 6y agoYou are assuming too much, IMO. That's just too many people on Earth. So people will still burn forests if humans need to eat or if there is any chance of profit doing that.