silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 1 year agoHalving reliance on meat and dairy could cut land-use emissions ‘by 31%’lockwww.carbonbrief.orgexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up1165cross-posted to: green@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1165external-linkHalving reliance on meat and dairy could cut land-use emissions ‘by 31%’lockwww.carbonbrief.orgsilence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square11fedilinkcross-posted to: green@lemmy.ml
minus-squareburntbutterbiscuits@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 year agoThe amount of change we would all need to do is so immense I don’t think it’s fathomable. Me choosing not to eat meat even if I stopped completely and went vegan would not do a damn thing. I don’t believe the problem is a matter of personal choices, it’s a much larger scale. You and all your friends becoming vegan doesn’t do shit. It’s laughable.
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up34·1 year agoPeople engage in individual action as a means of demonstrating that collective action is possible. Nobody is expecting individual action on its own to suffice; it takes changing the rules of society so that everybody is doing the right thing.
The amount of change we would all need to do is so immense I don’t think it’s fathomable.
Me choosing not to eat meat even if I stopped completely and went vegan would not do a damn thing.
I don’t believe the problem is a matter of personal choices, it’s a much larger scale.
You and all your friends becoming vegan doesn’t do shit. It’s laughable.
People engage in individual action as a means of demonstrating that collective action is possible. Nobody is expecting individual action on its own to suffice; it takes changing the rules of society so that everybody is doing the right thing.