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

  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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      • BussyCat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        So you are comparing a single year which had a 1% decrease in global beef consumption (1995 to 1996) and using that information to claim that beef doesn’t cause ghg?

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