We rarely eat red meat in our household, but we do have a car. They fucked our local public transportation system so badly we ended up not having a choice π€·ββοΈ
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Red meat has a huge carbon footprint because cattle requires a large amount of land and water.
https://sph.tulane.edu/climate-and-food-environmental-impact-beef-consumption
Demand for steaks and burgers is the primary driver of Deforestation:
https://e360.yale.edu/features/marcel-gomes-interview
If you don't have a car and rarely eat red meat, you are doing GREAT π π
Sure, you can drink tap water instead of plastic water. You can switch to Tea. You can travel by train. You can use Linux instead of Windows AI's crap. Those are great ideas. Also, don't drive yourself crazy. If you are only an ordinary citizen, remember that perfect is the enemy of good.
Not having kids is a whole order of magnitude more impactful. Or even just having one kid instead of 2 or 3+.
This has gotten easier as Iβve gotten older. I just donβt care for beef anymore. Iβm not disgusted by it. I just prefer other things anymore.
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This can easily be solved with a bottle of food colouring. I've compleltly replaced my red meat with blue meat. Problem solved.
I havenβt eaten red meat in years due to not reacting well to it, glad to see itβs also helping the environment π
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Being alive is bad for the environment.
Coffee is a big one for me along with cheese. I'm waiting for cheese to get better with vegan alternatives, the last time I tried shredded vegan cheese it melted and tasted like plastic, although that was 3 years ago now, and I am willing to try again.
Coffee is something I think can be helped if people were more picky on what brands they chose from. I do not believe Starbucks is the most sustainable coffee brand, as they trained me when I worked there to believe.
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Looks slightly off TBH, sources? Nuts being lowest, while Palm oil being quite high. Nuts are efficient, especially when considering caloric value, but I'm pretty sure something like a potato is better per kg. Palm oil AFAIK is a very efficient (most efficient vegetable) oil, might be that the destruction of highly carbon rich forest is factored in there maybe...
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I have a motorbike I use infrequently, I eat red meat rarely, and I have no children. I feel like I'm doing my part.
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Beef and pork is no problem...but cheese and coffee aint goin quietly.
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We can reach higher. Join me in end game environmentalism and become a serial killer today.
Wrong. The single biggest thing most of us can do to reduce harm to the environment is not have kids. Each human, no matter how responsible, can't help but add to the problems. The mountain of diapers for each baby alone is obscene. Each baby you don't have is a whole ass person that will never add to food or electricity or water demands at all.
It's never about personal responsibility. You can smug about not eating red meat, driving electric or not having children, but it doesn't change the reality: the climate is changing.
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I am a strict humanitarian. I only eat humans.