Yeah the ultra wealthy have a disproportionate individual impact on the climate, but a climate neutral world (which would still be experiencing catastrophe, we’ve passed that point) would still require lifestyle changes from everyone.
I get the frustration that people have about this, but while they have large magnitude to individual ratios we have large individual to magnitude factors. The issue is that its the sum of the products of those. It may be significantly irrelevant if you personally quit meat, but if enough people quit meat that your grocery store moves to treating meat as a specialty item then that’s a bigger blip, and if Kroger has to do that nationwide that one might show up on global warming graphs as is.
Ultimately this is going to require changing things. Removing meat subsidies will do far more than you going vegetarian, but part of how it will do that is by you and everyone else eating less meat.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah the ultra wealthy have a disproportionate individual impact on the climate, but a climate neutral world (which would still be experiencing catastrophe, we’ve passed that point) would still require lifestyle changes from everyone.
I get the frustration that people have about this, but while they have large magnitude to individual ratios we have large individual to magnitude factors. The issue is that its the sum of the products of those. It may be significantly irrelevant if you personally quit meat, but if enough people quit meat that your grocery store moves to treating meat as a specialty item then that’s a bigger blip, and if Kroger has to do that nationwide that one might show up on global warming graphs as is.
Ultimately this is going to require changing things. Removing meat subsidies will do far more than you going vegetarian, but part of how it will do that is by you and everyone else eating less meat.