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As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world. About 1C of total warming. Second chart: about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability. Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases. About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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Eating Meat Is Bad for Climate Change, and Here Are All the Studies That Prove It (sentientmedia.org)
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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I suggest you re-read my previous post.

My point can be sumarized by: don't let a need to preach your Morals on non-Environmental sides put aside more effective paths for better Environmental outcomes in favour of those paths which mainly serve your other Morals.

My personal standpoint on this specific subject is that we should be convincing people to eat less meat and aim for less enviromentally damaging meat (more poultry, less beef), and even try eating fully vegetarian meals once in a while, which IMHO is way more likelly to improve things Environmentally that trying to force people to switch to a "Meat Free" diet.

Pushing for the full "Meat Free" through legislation won't yield better Environmental outcomes, it will just generate lots of opposition, whilst an education "Eat less Meat" message will be much more broadly accepted and at the very least influence people away from damaging the Environment as much in this way.