Well, electric cars on balance wont save the planet cause the electricity and the cars and the battery are dirty to produce.
But animal farming is somewhere between 17 and 50% of global emissions, depending on what effect goes into the math. I’ll get you some citations
If the planet stopped animal farming, tomorrow, and we could, the impact would be huge. We cant all realistically not drive cars starting tomorrow, but we can all make a choice right now what we put in our mouths.
If the planet is on fire and global warming is an emergency and there’s hope, then ignoring the problem is not just a mere Lifestyle choice…its evil.
It is, for future potential generations, unforgiveable.
If on the other hand, the planet will be fine, and Greta and the scientists and those you believe are merely poseur virtue signalists, and nutball climate concerned vegans are simply alarmists, exaggerators probably cooking the numbers for some nefarious political purpose, then yeah, they are annoying assholes trying to reduce the net pleasure of the planet by snatching that burger out of your hands.
Which one is it?
If things get bad, do not console yourself with the thought, well there was nothing I could’ve done anyway, or who really knew.
You knew, or should have known. You could have acted.
But change is hard. Meat is social, its bred in the bone so to speak.
Its culture. Its comfort. Its habit.
But you knew.
At the very least you knew they were burning down the amazon to make your bacon.
Hell, you read this thread.
We are all, each, individually, absolutely responsible for our share of the problem.
That’s why I decided to become vegan last week.
I feel better, because I am doing something.
Is that silly?
Ive had yogurt every day for the last 30 years or so. It is very hard just not to eat cheese for me [although I will finish the stinky cheese no one else will eat so as not to waste it]. I ate some cheese most every day this decade. Eggs. Dammit. There were some gourmet donuts I was offered yesterday. No thanks.
No lecture on animal products. But no donut. Who am I too say anything, next year I’ll be in a ginormous mansion with just my wife. Ridiculous. Shameful.
It was a fancy 3.00 donut.
I love fancy donuts.
This is not about ones health.
This is about the planet.
This is much bigger than the real estate bubble. It will be the biggest issue of our time.
Electric cars wont save us.
Less cars, little meat, little flying, fewer kids, might not save us…but it’s the only steps you personally can take that could have an actual [though admittedly negligible] impact.
We are all part of the problem. Hell, I had 3 kids, do the less kids thing is not doable for me.
I’ve been stuffing my stupid face with meat and eggs and cheese my whole life. True, I dont fly much, but that was only because I despise leaving home. I suck too.
Pretty goddamn annoying little tirade, eh?I’m even giving myself a headache. I demand my longest, most irritating post of 2019 trophy, now.
Scaredy, you might say, just say fuck it, do whatever, nothing matters, have a beer and a burger and shut up, both your actual voice, your written voice and while you’re at it, the voice in your head.
That gives me more of a headache.
I honestly believe we are in trouble.
Do you honestly believe we are not?
Anyway, if you read this far, thank you. And do what you really believe is right. Whatever your heart tells you. But with your heart and your eyes and your mind open and aware.
