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I'm aware, and fully agree.

“Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe




I notice that you still seem to be using electricity and a computer.

I'll bet you're still eating food that was transported by internal combustion engines, too.


> I notice that you still seem to be using electricity and a computer.

Electricity is (should be, will be) practically free [0]. Unless somebody is living like a caveman they should not be advocating for responsible stewardship of earth resources?

> I'll bet you're still eating food that was transported by internal combustion engines

You want to reduce the carbon footprint of your food? Focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local [1] [2] [3]

[0] https://www.dlr.de/tt/Portaldata/41/Resources/dokumente/inst... - 254x254 km grid of solar panels is enough for the whole world

1] https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local - transport is a small contributor to emissions. For most food products, it accounts for less than 10%, and it’s much smaller for the largest GHG emitters. In beef from beef herds, it’s 0.5%.

[2] https://plantbasednews.org/news/plant-based-lifestyles-imper...

[3] https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets - if the world adopted a plant-based diet we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares


What was that about "miraculous, non-existent technology"?


What do you mean? :)




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