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Animal agriculture is around 15% of global emissions, and AI is probably .1% to .5%, but sure, stop using LLMs. That will solve the problem.
by alex_young 7mo ago
Animal agriculture is around 15% of global emissions, and AI is probably .1% to .5%, but sure, stop using LLMs. That will solve the problem.
- pjmlp 7mo agoIndeed lets tear down forests to build soya fields for all that fake meat tofu.
- pingou 7mo agoYou must have been misinformed, they tear down forests to grow soya to use as feedstock (mostly for beef). Nothing to do with fake meat tofu, quite the opposite actually.
- pjmlp 7mo agoThe point stands.
- Aachen 7mo ago"I'm not going to stop openly blaming vegan products after learning it's actually beef manufacturing that consumes all this soy" or how should one read this comment?
- pingou 7mo agoWhat was your point? My point is that if more people were vegan there would be less deforestation. Instead of eating the beef that eats the soy, you eat the soy directly, which is much more efficient. It's unclear if you think it's false or if you had a totally different point. Why bring the vegans into that when they are the ones consuming the fewest resources?
- unglaublich 7mo agoBut the real meat requires much more soy for animal feed so it's still a better choice.
- aziaziazi 7mo agoThis is a common fallacy. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47275088#47280922 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47275088#47280922
- 9rx 7mo ago> Animal agriculture is around 15% of global emissions The majority of which is methane, which only has a 7-12 year life. Which means — unless for some reason you started eating way more animals than you did yesterday — that your emissions today simply replace your emissions from 12 years ago. In other words, it is a stable system, unlike carbon, which basically sticks around forever.
- alex_young 7mo agoBut aren’t we doing just that? Many more people eating more meat than ever before? Methane has a shorter shelf life, but is far more potent, meaning that any increase is worrying, and decreases could have a dramatic impact.
- 9rx 7mo agoI'm not. If you are, well, I guess you can't control other people.
- wolvesechoes 7mo agoYes, what a bright future where we feed our bodies with a soy slop, and our brain with AI slop.