A purely utilitarian life is a life only spent on survival. Not a life I want to live.
Well, that hubris won’t afford you a livable world for much longer.
We could have respected the planet that birthed us, and taken only what we needed. Instead we extracted every natural resource we could find, and left behind countless shattered ecosystems. Even as the walls close in, we accelerate our pettiness and perform acts of wastefulness that alone do measurable ecological damage, and we celebrate it because it is “cool”.
AIhasUse@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If this is something you feel strongly about, then please stop eating factory farmed meat and animal products if you havent already. It is something you personally can actually do. It helps, and it will genuinely make you feel better. You may not have much power, but using the power you do have to help the team you claim to be on instead of the other team is a massive step forward.
todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Look, you’re not really wrong, but you get that this shit is why people get irritated with vegans right? We were talking about being wasteful with energy resources for the sake of capitalism and you came in with a lazy segue to animal rights and nutritional health.
It’s a conversation that we should be having, but it’s also insufferable to constantly be shoehorning it into every conversation.
Teppichbrand@feddit.org 2 months ago
I don’t agree. The comment points out the single most easy and effektive move an individal without political nor financial power can make to cut personal co2-emissions with just a change of habit. It’s not about animal rights and not about your health. Us still eating meat even though we know better is an incredibly dumb waste of energy for the sake of pleasure, exactly like this shitty powereating globe.
todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Oh, you’re one of those “you can save the planet with your personal habits” people…
You enjoy your salad. I’m wondering what it takes to firebomb an oil refinery.
Jrockwar@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Take a train instead of a flight. Cycle to work or take public transport instead of driving. Install a heat pump or solar in your house. There are a million things people can do to cut down their emissions that can be as effective as becoming herbivores, depending on each one’s personal situation.
Plus, I don’t have the numbers in my head but I’m pretty sure a locally grown fillet of chicken is more environmentally friendly than an avocado that has travelled across the Atlantic, so “buy local” would be probably better advice.
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
eating meat doesn’t emit co2
treadful@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
You came in here with your absolutist utilitarian life above all else or we all die post just to respond with this because someone suggested you to stop eating meat. Beautiful.
jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
That’s not veganism, that’s environmentalism. Veganism is recognizing that animals have the right not to be treated as property and have atrocities visited upon them. That the experiences of animals are real and matter. That their suffering is identical in nature to your own.
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
no, it doesnt. despite the existence of vegans, meat production increases every year, year over year.
AIhasUse@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And there’s crime so you might as well rape. What a pathetic cop out. You’re lucky there are so many people taking care of you.
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
the claim is that by not consuming factory farmed meat, you make an impact on the amount of emissions from its production. this is not true. it is also not analogous to raping anyone.
Teppichbrand@feddit.org 2 months ago
No it doesn’t, Commie
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
you’re cherrypicking.
ourworldindata.org/…/meat-production-tonnes?tab=c…