Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
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:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
What the hell is COP at this point? It's just a corporate champagne lunch where billionaires compete to see who can be the most horrific pollutors.
"Hey guys! Check this out this severed baby head on a stick! What does it have to do with climate change? Who gives a fuck?! Let's light it on fire!"
Raising animals for meat isn't inherently an awful thing for the environment. There is land that is useful for grazing but unsuitable for growing crops. Turning inedible grasses into meat is very useful but industrial scale grain fed and fattened meat production clearly is a problem.
That's a huge part of it. The second problem is that cattle produce a lot of methane as part of their digestive process. Other species produce a lot less.
We would need alot less land, if we only used it for plants to feed humans, instead of using it to produce meat. Land that is now used for grazing could be rewildered and contribute to countering the massive loss in biodiversity. It is one of the greatest errors of the system we live in, that everything is seen trough the lens of generating short term profits.
Eating meat isn't inherently bad or ecologically damaging. Humans are animals and part of Earth and as such have as much right to eat animals as a lion.
The problem is that there are 8 billion people on Earth and to feed that many people, our food production must be industrialized. Industrializing food from animals means treating them (and the environment) like objects.
Greedy, power hungry psychopaths and their need to hoard resources and power are the root of the problem. Their favorite tools of markets and capitalism are what drive unsustainable population growth.
The solutions to these types of problems are not to make everyone vegan or force us all to live super efficient zero waste lives in cities packed like sardines. The solutions involve moving beyond capitalism and degrowth.
Edit - I want to clarify I'm not defending these plans, just stating a position related to the post.
Babe, wake up. New propganda just dropped.
Holy hell
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Next on deck: cars propose sheltering the earth from the sun by covering it with one big ass parking lot.
