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Meat and Dairy Industries’ Stranglehold on Greener Alternatives Hinders Climate Action
(www.onegreenplanet.org)
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
The only people standing in the way of progress are the conservatives who protect harmful industries. Without conservatives, we could solve these issues.
To be fair most of the public doesn't want to hear about the meat industry at all, and I can see how attempts to regulate (i.e., raise prices) will not go down well with voters