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by _heimdall 693 days ago
I'd caveat this by saying eating less industrially raised and processed meat would help. The same goes for industrial produce though, they cause a ton of damage that few people ever see or think about.

If we want realistic solutions, they'll all be incremental like using less plastic or Turing lights off when you aren't home. If we want recommendations that would actually help, we would need to completely reorganize societies and our daily lives.

We don't need cars, air travel, grocery stores, or even air conditioning to survive. Those are all modern inventions on the order of decades old. People aren't going to do that willingly though, including me. I live a very different, and more simple, life than the average American but the idea of throwing out so many things that we have today only because we've enslaved natural fuel sources is scary as hell.