Red meat has a huge carbon footprint because cattle requires a large amount of land and water.
https://sph.tulane.edu/climate-and-food-environmental-impact-beef-consumption
Demand for steaks and burgers is the primary driver of Deforestation:
https://e360.yale.edu/features/marcel-gomes-interview
If you don’t have a car and rarely eat red meat, you are doing GREAT 🙌🙌 🙌
Sure, you can drink tap water instead of plastic water. You can switch to Tea. You can travel by train. You can use Linux instead of Windows AI’s crap. Those are great ideas. But, don’t drive yourself crazy. If you are only an ordinary citizen, remember that perfect is the enemy of good.
I don’t buy it.
In 2008 when the travel industry crashed in the wake of the market crash, and again in 2020 after COVID lockdowns started, we saw significant decreases in pollution.
Meat isn’t the problem. Fossil fuels are.
More than one thing can contribute.
Are you comparing that to a time that everyone stopped eating beef or how are you using that information to make the claim that meat isn’t the problem?
I’m pointing to observable cause-and-effect.
That is the classic problem of a correlation. If you are sitting in a room that is warm and you notice that when you are using your laptop the room is slightly warmer and when your laptop is off the room is slightly cooler would you say that the driving force for the temperature of the room is your laptop? Or could it also be the oven, the outside temperature, the heating/air conditioning, the number of people in the room, etc. we do have enough evidence that global air travel is a significant contributor to ghg and therefore climate change but it’s estimated to be 2.5% compared to agriculture which is 10%
like the mid-90’s mad cow scare?
What was the reduction in beef consumption world wide compared to the reduction in ghg?
dam. if only there were charts that show meat production and ghge
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/meat-production-tonnes?tab=chart&country=~OWID_WRL
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/total-ghg-emissions?tab=chart&country=~OWID_WRL
So you are comparing a single year which had a 1% decrease in global beef consumption (1995 to 1996) and using that information to claim that beef doesn’t cause ghg?
i’m saying abstaining from beef can’t causally decrease ghge
If you look at the two charts you listed they correlate very heavily with eachother
check 1995-1996
There is not one thing that is the problem. It’s a bunch of big problems adding up into a colossal one.