so how many burgers do I skip to compensate for one of Musk's jet joy rides?
Still going to VOTE! Don’t know why that needed to be in there, next to car and red meat
Let me stop eating meat and cheese so that regime whores and their owners can fly on their private jet.
I don't even disagree with the premise tbh. I reduced the intake due to mostly health concerns but shilling this as direct action to the peasants is tone deaf at best.
60% of the us plebs are living hand to mouth. Their priorities are gonna be in that. Beef prices are outrageous, they should be doing some basic substitutions but telling an American pleb to cut back on beef, you might as well called his mum a whore lol
So if economics ain't gonna change their idiot consumption habits I highly doubt the "climate" will
I would assume a competently executed strategy of eliminating the worst offenders (and/or the managing infrastructure thereof) would probably have more impact, they probably meant legal things though.
For instance, a solo campaign of taking out the biggest data centers would probably work. Difficult though.
Billionaires have the carbon footprint of 30k families and this bitch here is saying I have to give up my car and my burgers.
What a stupid post to get blocked over.
Not quite the reply that you would hope for - but the general direction isn't that wrong
Its true that the economy of scale to reduce emissions is at the factories and such, but the point of the other things on a personal level are important; largely because they instill a culture of caring about the matter. For example, for better or worse, the marine corps puts a lot of emphasis on the proper wearing and display of the uniform, so the consequence is that it is taboo to not shave or have unshined shoes. If you are the only one in a party using a plastic straw or the only one rolling coal; you'll be more than a sore thumb; you'll be shunned at a deeper level and by the wider community not just environmentalists.
No one is even saying no beef, but we are saying reduction in it. That statement is not only a false dichotomy, but preventing a real start to our movements.
Your 'movement' is a sham created by the elites to shift focus from the greatest wasters, corporations and billionaires, by burdening the common person with austerity measures
Same thing with the citizen recycling in the 90s, a vast and widespread misinformation campaign designed to shift attention away from the real sources of waste and pollution
Congrats, you've been played and you are actively playing others.
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.
Sure. Imma keep using my jet though.
What about ostrich? It’s red meat and much more healthy than beef, but I’m not sure it counts as poultry in this context.
Veganism is good, necessary even, but more than voting we need to actually overthrow capitalism and replace it with socialism. Profit will destroy the planet unless we take control of the reigns from capital.
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