Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat

FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• CXORA@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  More than one thing can contribute.

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• BussyCat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Are you comparing that to a time that everyone stopped eating beef or how are you using that information to make the claim that meat isn’t the problem?

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  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’m pointing to observable cause-and-effect.

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    • BussyCat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That is the classic problem of a correlation. If you are sitting in a room that is warm and you notice that when you are using your laptop the room is slightly warmer and when your laptop is off the room is slightly cooler would you say that the driving force for the temperature of the room is your laptop? Or could it also be the oven, the outside temperature, the heating/air conditioning, the number of people in the room, etc. we do have enough evidence that global air travel is a significant contributor to ghg and therefore climate change but it’s estimated to be 2.5% compared to agriculture which is 10%

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  • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Are you comparing that to a time that everyone stopped eating beef

    like the mid-90’s mad cow scare?

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    • BussyCat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      What was the reduction in beef consumption world wide compared to the reduction in ghg?

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      • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        dam. if only there were charts that show meat production and ghge

        ourworldindata.org/…/meat-production-tonnes?tab=c…

        ourworldindata.org/grapher/total-ghg-emissions?ta…

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• EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  There is not one thing that is the problem. It’s a bunch of big problems adding up into a colossal one.

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