To feed your food preferences:
AI: ~560–800 Billion Liters Annual usage
Beef: ~4,387 Trillion Liters (for feed alone)
AI: Minimal land use
Beef: 44% of global habitable land
AI: ~20,400 tons CO2 (per large model)
Beef: ~14.5% of all global emissions
AI: Electronic waste, local heat islands
Beef: Methane, manure runoff, “dead zones”
A single quarter-pound beef burger requires between 40 and 70 gallons of surface/groundwater
A heavy AI user (50 queries/day for a year) consumes roughly 14 to 48 gallons of water annually
Beef driven industrial agriculture is the #1 driver of global deforestation. In the Amazon, cattle ranching is responsible for at least 75% of forest loss. This is causing ecological collapse.
All this to torture cows. Fucking stop it. Stop it NOW.
Assuming we live in the same region West Asia, then I fully agree and it’s refreshing to see someone worry about this too here… AI, climate change and meat industry is catastrophic and will straight up destroy our region and force us all out, all in the name of treats and capitalism
I hope we get to live to see us make a 180 (through a breakthrough, revolution or just capitalism crumbling) and save us from the brink of uninhabitance
Solidarity brother