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by josefresco 1919 days ago
> distract from the root cause

It's all hands on deck dude. Do you think we have the luxury to focus on just the worst offender? People (society) can work on more than one problem at-a-time, it's not a "distraction" it's doing anything and everything we can to prevent extinction of our species. Meat consumption and the environmental damage caused by it's infrastructure AND fossil fuel usage need to be addressed, not one or the other.
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codr7 1918 days ago
One alternative would be accepting that the climate has always changed, regularly dramatically so, and focus on adapting to survive the inevitable.

It sucks, but it is what it is, and it's not going anywhere.

The environmental movement was fully compromised a long time ago, it has absolutely nothing to do with the environment anymore, it's all about profit and shame.

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adgjlsfhk1 1918 days ago
The geological record is quite clear that the climate has never changed like this without extinction events that kill 75% of all life on earth. Personally, I don't like those odds, especially since we have an alternative (keep the climate from changing). Furthermore, the climate has never changed anywhere near this quickly before. Natural warming and cooling happens over 100s of thousands of years, not a lifetime. This is unprecedented and preventable.
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codr7 1913 days ago
My point exactly, so we're better of figuring out how to survive it asap.

Remains to be proven, it's never a linear process, once certain critical masses are reached it will happen more or less instantly. We're about due for an ice age, and from what I understand this is possibly how they start.

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