> If you want people to "care", be careful what you wish for. We could drastically
reduce our human carbon emissions by feeding all the first-world vegans to pigs,
and improve our signal-to-noise ratio on the Internet as well. /sarc
Why is this marked as sarcasm? The greatest personal contribution to the
reduction of carbon gas emissions that a person can possibly make is to stop
breathing, although that's true for non-vegans as well.
Meanwhile, almost 75% of greenhouse gas emissions come from power production and
so from burning fossil fuels:
It's burning fossil fuels that's causing climate change, not eating cows and
certainly not eating pigs and chickens (who are the most widely consumed meat
animals). We've had farming for more than 10 thousand years but the
greenhouse effect causing climate change started only in the last couple hundred
years, along with the Industrial Revolution. Why? Because the carbon gasses
released by farming are part of the carbon cycle that circulates carbon gasses
between the atmosphere and the biosphere, and that is relatively stable and has
never caused a greenhouse effect in the billion years of life on the planet.
While burning fossil fuels releases carbon gasses at rates and amounts that the
natural mechanisms in the environment that normally bind carbon can't cope with:
The idea that eating cows causes climate change is the dirty lie of vegan
propaganda, spread by people who, in truth, don't know anything about the
environment and don't really care about the environment or climate change and
only care about whether other people eat meat. It is a lie because it's false
and it's a dirty lie because it's obscuring the real cause of climate change.
And it's the dirtiest of dirty lies because it tells people that they can save
the environment if they have a soy burger now and then, rather than giving up on
their cars (hear that OP?) not buying a new iphone twice a year, not flying to
their Instagrammable holiday destinations, not stuffing their houses with
useless houseould appliances and generally stopping their incredibly wasteful
use of energy produced by the burning of fossil fuels.
Why is this marked as sarcasm? The greatest personal contribution to the reduction of carbon gas emissions that a person can possibly make is to stop breathing, although that's true for non-vegans as well.
Meanwhile, almost 75% of greenhouse gas emissions come from power production and so from burning fossil fuels:
https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector
It's burning fossil fuels that's causing climate change, not eating cows and certainly not eating pigs and chickens (who are the most widely consumed meat animals). We've had farming for more than 10 thousand years but the greenhouse effect causing climate change started only in the last couple hundred years, along with the Industrial Revolution. Why? Because the carbon gasses released by farming are part of the carbon cycle that circulates carbon gasses between the atmosphere and the biosphere, and that is relatively stable and has never caused a greenhouse effect in the billion years of life on the planet. While burning fossil fuels releases carbon gasses at rates and amounts that the natural mechanisms in the environment that normally bind carbon can't cope with:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_carbon_cycle
The idea that eating cows causes climate change is the dirty lie of vegan propaganda, spread by people who, in truth, don't know anything about the environment and don't really care about the environment or climate change and only care about whether other people eat meat. It is a lie because it's false and it's a dirty lie because it's obscuring the real cause of climate change. And it's the dirtiest of dirty lies because it tells people that they can save the environment if they have a soy burger now and then, rather than giving up on their cars (hear that OP?) not buying a new iphone twice a year, not flying to their Instagrammable holiday destinations, not stuffing their houses with useless houseould appliances and generally stopping their incredibly wasteful use of energy produced by the burning of fossil fuels.