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Why do you always ignore the big picture, and the easy solution?
The easy solution is at your next meal. By adopting a healthy, compassionate diet, the energy and global warming issues are handled.
This is common knowledge, proven in many studies, but for whatever reason, you won’t mention it???
I don’t believe in conspiracies, but mass illusions are obvious, your emperor has no clothes!
Fortunately, as soon as an someone, maybe a child, speaks the truth, we can all wake up, and gain personal and global health.
I urge you to be that voice and to tell the whole truth of the problem and solution.
Thanks for listening…
Dennis
So, if I understand you correctly, you are saying that the whole issue could be resolved by people changing their dietary habits in some way (that you chose not to elucidate), regardless of the rate of increase with which we explore for and burn fossil fuels? Respectfully, I’m going to go ahead and call BS on that one. I’ve not seen a single piece of research to support what you’re saying.
I beg your pardon, I thought this was common knowledge. I suggest you google diet and the environment and you’l be inundated with the references. You might start with the UN Climate report from a few years ago that stated that the livestock industry adds 17% more greenhouse gases to the environment than the transportation industry. Spoiler alert: if you adopt a healthy and compassionate diet you’ll do more to save the planet than if you gave up all forms of motorized transportation or products and services transported using fossil fuels or their derivatives.
And, its not all or nothing, doesn’t require retooling industry, or major manufacturing nor technological changes…its a menu choice, easy and immediate.
So, it’s not BS, but that does have something to do with it!
Thanks for caring about the environment…the good news is that everyone can have the easiest, most impactful, positive effect beginning at their next meal.
So, I guess you missed this, then?
https://arbtech.co.uk/can-vegetarianism-save-planet-infographic/
This is one of many many studies that proves my point…are we reading the same info…vegans carbon footprint is less than half of carnivores?
Changing your diet may help, especially if you can grow your own (not practical for many people), but with such a massive population we can`t meet demands without imported food. Locally sourced meat products are a good idea, boosting local business and reducing carbon emissions, but again it can’t meet demands.
The world creates billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide a year through the burning of fossil fuels, transport, energy, heating…. the list goes on. Coal is finite, as is oil.
Renewable energy is a must, not a maybe or an if. Look on the bright side, we are seeing the dawn of a new era, the end of fossil fuels, and the beginning of renewable sources. Note the word ‘Beginning’ technology will advance, and renewable energy will become more and more efficient.
We can`t carry on as we are, atmospheric c02 emissions have peaked over 400ppm for over a month for the first time in human history, through ice core data it has shown never to have been this high for 800,000 years.
We have already trashed habitats and ecosystems worldwide, are we now intent on trashing the very thing that enables us to be here? If we do, life will continue and persist, it just won`t include the human species.
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