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by na92 2813 days ago
Clean energy is coming, but slowly.

People are not going to get off their cars and hop on a bike.

There is something you can do, today, to mitigate one of the biggest causes of climate change.

Give up meat and dairy.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/10/huge-red...

Ironically the thing that is easiest to do is also the last one people want to do.

I always thought that the fight against meat and dairy was a moral one. I didn't know the toll it takes on the environment, until I specifically went looking for it. It is one of the best kept capitalist secrets.

2 comments

Why not just have people switch to poultry? White meat is healthier, anyway. People aren’t going to go vegetarian directly but surely there are half-measures that are a good first step.
Your Guardian article sounds like it's saying that population expansion is the real problem. Me not eating a hamburger isn't going to solve the population issue.