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You can always stop eating meat, move to a smaller home, get rid of your cars, etc. But only do it if you want. There’s really not much of a point.
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Not having children will have a bigger impact. A plant based diet is moderately low down this list (again from the Guardian, they could try to be a bit more consistent). https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/12/want-to-...
Why not both? The OP asked what they could do. It's an option.
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Although it has become fashionable to decry making personal changes as "irrelevant" and "ineffective" with the lie that since everyone isn't doing it, there's not point in anyone doing it, making changes to how you and your family live is still very important. Things you can do: 1. Find an energy provider who sells green energy - here in Germany, it's possible (and common) to buy 100% green energy, but I don't know w…
'Have no illusions. To achieve our goal of getting off fossil fuels, these reductions in demand and increases in supply must be big. Don’t be distracted by the myth that “every little helps.” If everyone does a little, we’ll achieve only a little. We must do a lot. What’s required are big changes in demand and in supply.'
Although it has become fashionable to decry making personal changes as "irrelevant" and "ineffective" with the lie that since everyone isn't doing it, there's not point in anyone doing it, making changes to how you and your family live is still very important. Things you can do: 1. Find an energy provider who sells green energy - here in Germany, it's possible (and common) to buy 100% green energy, but I don't know w…
David Mackay (Physicist and author of Sustainable Energy - without the hot air http://www.withouthotair.com/Contents.html ): 'Have no illusions. To achieve our goal of getting off fossil fuels, these reductions in demand and increases in supply must be big. Don’t be distracted by the myth that “every little helps.” If everyone does a little, we’ll achieve only a little. We must do a lot. What’s required are big chang…
I read his book on Sustainable Energy in my Physics degree and later his book on Information Theory when studying Machine Learning. Truly impressive to have contributed to so many different fields.
But yeah - after reading his book I came to the conclusion that the greenest thing we can do is to support Nuclear Power.
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What about environmentally conscious farming? I mean pastured, free-range, etc. Also, what would you say is the difference between massive industrial plantations intended to feed livestock vs those intended to feed humans with a less than ideal diet?
There's literally not enough land on the planet for everyone to eat free range beef. As for the plantations: if we all cut out livestock from our diets, there'd be 9x less of them. And what does "ideal" mean?
I believe that "ideal" is nowhere near a diet requiring supplementation and leading to metabolic and cardiovascular disease.
^: I see this "fact" touted around quite a lot. Could I get a source? Here you can actually see a figure of 67% of global crop yield by weight used to feed humans: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/0340...
Reduce your meat consumption or go vegetarian or vegan. A major cause of deforestation is to grow corn / soybeans to feed to livestock. The forests, natural carbon sinks, are lost, and the livestock increase the amount of methane in the atmosphere. It takes 9 times the amount of land to make beef vs. growing plants. It uses a lot more freshwater to grow the food, and much more to give to the animals.