For starters, you can add weather stripping to outside-facing doors and windows. If your landlord doesn’t want to pay for it, then it can be found cheaply on aliexpress. Also, add insulation outside-facing switch covers and outlet plates.
For starters, you can add weather stripping to outside-facing doors and windows. If your landlord doesn’t want to pay for it, then it can be found cheaply on aliexpress. Also, add insulation outside-facing switch covers and outlet plates.
And the production of meat is ~5-10x worse than almost all plant food sources.
if that’s true (i’m dubious) then you should be finding an effective way to curb production.
Which brings us back to reducing consumption of meat
buying beans is not an effective way to reduce meat production
Got suggestions for effective ways (that are affordable and available today) of reducing meat production?
do you own bolt cutters?
by what metric, and using what methodology?
Literally linked a whole article showing the emissions breakdown of meat vs plant production.
can you explain the methodology?
It’s looks like a meta analysis of other papers - are you questioning methodologies because you were unable to find them in referenced papers?
i was asking because i can explain the methodology, and it is dubious.
if you total all the inputs that go into a product (the water, the carbon emissions, the land use, etc), then you can see what it would cost to produce it if you made no other products. but that’s not actually the environment in which meat dairy and eggs are produced.
the most illustrative example is cotton. cotton is not a food. it is grown for textiles. it wrecks the soil and it is THIRSTY. after you harvest the cotton and separate the fiber from the stalk and seed, you have seed left over. way more seed than you need to replant. cottonseed can be and is pressed for oil, but it takes much less processing to mix it into cattle fodder. why should the water used to grow cotton count against the water inputs for beef and milk? it’s actually a conservation of resources. these industries are all interconnected, and trying to just put a singular value on every product in the absence of the context of its production is not actually useful in determining what would be ecologically responsible.
by what metric?