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Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds
(www.theguardian.com)
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If you look at the source of the data for emissions it's unclear that it's all from meat production: https://ourworldindata.org/greenhouse-gas-emissions-food
Even if we take at face value that meat accounts for 60% of industrial agriculture emissions, as a proportion of total emissions that is still only 0.6 * 26% = ~16%. It's sizable, but perhaps we should be addressing the elephants in the room, in the "non-food" section, first.
The other emissions are providing necessary value and not strictly producing what amounts to a luxury product. Cars move people, clothes need to be made, resources need to be shipped across the globe, etc... Yeah you can have deeper discussions about how to trim them down but that's a clean, easy 16% that could be won basically tomorrow.
Do you think say perhaps AI emissions are less of a luxury product than food?
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