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by myshpa 5y ago
> Let people who are used to meat/dairy diets adopt plant-based diets and I wouldn't be surprised if this leads to more of them becoming overweight. I think that the exact opposite is true. Most new vegans lose weight quickly.
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by myshpa 5y ago
Thank you. Yes, they do. But they are pretty inefficient manure factories [ https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/land-use-kcal-poore ]. We even have 8 milliards of humans producing manure, which we currently (mostly) flush
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by myshpa 5y ago
Stop eating cows & dairy. Immediately you've reduced the scale by 75%. If the world adopted a plant-based diet we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares [ https://ourworldindata.org/la
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by myshpa 5y ago
> I doubt that blaming the consumer is helpful. Stuff like fat shaming usually backfires. And leads to us-vs-them polarization. I'm not blaming the customer. I'm simply pointing out that we can do a lot for the meaningful chang
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by myshpa 5y ago
We need to plant new forests. We need old growth / primaeval forests, and a lot of them. Our curent forest practices are laughable. [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKL40aBg-7E - The Biotic Pump] [ https://fo
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by myshpa 5y ago
Meat and dairy needs not only a lot of land and fertilizers, but also a lot of pesticides/herbicides. Pesticide bioaccumulation in cattle https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7525218/ Public Health Implications of Pes
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by myshpa 5y ago
Not every piece of land existing should be used to feed us. We could reforest the pastures (start reducing CO2 in the atmosphere) and return the land to the wildlife (put a stop to an anthropomorphic extinction).
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by myshpa 5y ago
The pressure is here from us doing bad things. We're killing the soil, bugs, forests, wildlife, sea, mainly by purchasing the wrong things in the supermarket. [1] We could use just 25% of our current agriculture land and still feed the
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by myshpa 5y ago
Doesn't US have big problems with air conditioners in the summer? Hempcrete is not only for winter months and keeping heat inside. It's also very good for keeping the heat outside of the building in summer. [ https://www
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by myshpa 5y ago
It is waterproof ... please, see my other comment in this thread for a link to a relevant article.
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by myshpa 5y ago
As it turns out, hempcrete is a great thermal insulator. Less heat flows through it than through other insulators, e.g. wool or cotton. In winter, the temperature of the outer walls of hemp houses can be around 5C lower than in the houses (
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by myshpa 5y ago
How thick the external wall is depends on your insulation requirements - for residential building a foot is not much, not in central/northern europe, because you don't need additional insulating layer, as is the case with other, m
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by myshpa 5y ago
I think one of the solutions may be based on hemp, currently known as hempcrete or hemp concrete - essentially a mix of hemp hurd (the woody essence of the hemp plant), hydraulic lime, and water. You mix it up and then all you need is just
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by myshpa 5y ago
You know, the way I see it, we can have either star-trek like future, or blade-runner like. I would very much prefer the first one. And it does not mean we would have to have mass produced apartments (see cob buildings, hemp crete - the leg
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by myshpa 5y ago
We don't need everybody working. 75% of jobs are bullshit jobs. Just 2% of people work in agriculture. We slave 30-40 years for a priviledge to live in a house. (Almost) all money in circulation is owned/issued by banks, and the i
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by myshpa 5y ago
If you want to help the planet (for your children/grandchildren), start reading about stuff. Meat/dairy industry, agriculture, forests, dying sea, poisons everywhere and in everything, plastics, flora/fauna extinction, ... Be
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by myshpa 5y ago
Maybe we could finally stop subsidizing cows / dairy industry. Cows use 3/4 of our agriculture land, same amount of land as all current forests. Beef / dairy is also a leading defforestation driver. And for cheese/milk t