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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.




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.




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