Sophistrysapien247

Sophistrysapien247 t1_j8y8ee5 wrote

It already passed us for one. And secondly I never said we weren't breathing it in.

I suggested that the amount we actually inhale is unknown and isn't going to be the same concentration as the site of the contamination. Meaning, I don't think we should worry just uet because we aren't breathing in much more chemicals than a normal day

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Sophistrysapien247 t1_j8w8d61 wrote

Choosing less animal products is a lot easier than reducing individual fossil fuel consumption.

Considering that CH4 is more potent and you'd also reduce supply chain emissions it really isn't that hard for the Huge impact it would make

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Sophistrysapien247 t1_j8px7tm wrote

Yeah, some other ways are not having a child (just one less child even... not zero children) and also drive an electric car. But considering most people est multiple times a day, those small choices are much more accessible than the other two. So to me small diet changes are the most accessible

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Sophistrysapien247 t1_j8pw5ip wrote

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/12/4/20993654/chicken-beef-climate-environment-factory-farms

It's not as big of a difference as even the most transported meat substitute. since chickens have to eat a lot of calories to yield a lot of calories (trophic level heat loss) so we would still be growing all that grain to only yield 50% worth of calories of chicken. Did that make sense?

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Sophistrysapien247 t1_j8ptuzm wrote

Do you know what reductio ad absurdum means by any chance?

I said eat less if you care about your environmental impact

I never said we have to genocide wtf why must you go to the extremes are you that much of a snowflake

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Sophistrysapien247 t1_j8pta76 wrote

https://www.science.org/content/article/grass-fed-cows-won-t-save-climate-report-finds

Grass fed cows live longer and each cow (each pound of meat it produces) takes longer to mature and so the cow produces more methane per pound of finished meat. And also all the food they eat (soy, wheat, corn etc) are a lot of the 'vegan food'you are saying is 'equally bad because of the transportation emissions'... how do you think cows food gets to them? And do you really think it makes sense for everyone to eat grass fed? That's some first world thinking right there

Again, read the comparison between CO2 (from transportation) in contrast to CH4. I already covered all of that. It's all bad but if you recycle or something like that I bet you care about the environment. Most plastic waste comes not from consumer goods but fishing nets in the ocean. Yet we applaud people using less plastic and recycling.

Maybe look into your actual impact and the facts instead of kidding yourself

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Sophistrysapien247 t1_j8pstye wrote

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Sophistrysapien247 t1_j8orb9l wrote

Methane(CH4) is an insanely bad GHG compared to CO2. "Methane is more than 25 times as potent as carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere."

https://www.epa.gov/gmi/importance-methane#:~:text=Methane%20is%20the%20second%20most,trapping%20heat%20in%20the%20atmosphere.

And it can be remediate out of the atmosphere way quicker too.

So it's worse, and easy to remove from the atmosphere (even with no extra efforts). So if we just focused on CH4 as a starting point we could slow down a lot of warning.

The biggest source of methane is from farmed animals burping and farting. On top of the fact that it takes fossil fuels to run the machines to farm grain to feed them and get the food to them we could reduce so much warming emissions just from the food we eat.

It's something we could all do that would have a very measurable impact.

If you are complaining about people not giving a shit but you still eat animal products because you "recycle and don't buy plastic straws" you are kidding yourself and part of the problem.

It's something we can do while we wait for the large companies to be held accountable

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Sophistrysapien247 t1_j7imbff wrote

Reply to Yuhp by QuiGonLogan

People are so not self aware at all... but come on, where else are there barriers in the middle of am area like that

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