>>>You don't care about your carbon emissions at all? We are introducing such big amounts of greenhouse gasses just from our consumerism lifestyle and the convenience of it all is big enough to just "[not] care".
Who determines what types of energy consumption are just, and which are immoral and wrong? How much electricity and natural resources are burnt up in popular endeavors such as alcohol and marijuana production?
We've got "climate activists" that fly in private jets to conferences just to chide the rest of us about "consumerism". Meanwhile I'm maintaining my physical fitness with an Army-surplus ammo can full of dirt, stuffed in a 30-year old backpack. I've had the same rugged Android phone for over 5 years. My two cars were manufactured in 2007 and 1994. Back when I still lived in the US, 2 of my 3 firearms were Communist surplus weapons from the ~1970s (SKSes). I wear mostly custom tailored shirts that I had made 9 years ago. I'm confident that my overall carbon footprint for the past 10 years or so is reasonably small. So No I don't stress out over said footprint. I just live frugally and buy stuff that lasts. I happen to like driving things with internal combustion engines and I like the taste of cow flesh.
Maybe there will come a time when climate change forces us all to no-shit fight each other for competition of scarce habitable land and food resources. If the planet melts....I'll fight to survive and thrive. If we are forced into Fallout-style vaults, I'll fight to survive and thrive. I'll teach my kids the same. My assessment is that I, and those I care about, have a higher probability of coming out on top in such a cataclysm than the people who tell me not to eat meat.
Climate alarmists/Polliver: "You lived your life for progress. You want to die for some chickens?"
Omnivores/Clegane: "Someone is." https://youtu.be/LeYwkeX6xNI
If you want people to "care", be careful what you wish for. We could drastically reduce our human carbon emissions by feeding all the first-world vegans to pigs, and improve our signal-to-noise ratio on the Internet as well. /sarc
>>>And then you brag about having eating dogs like this post couldn't get any worse.
It's not a "brag", just a statement of factual reality: some major developed economies eat dog. It should cause people to reflect on their own positions. Who is "we" in the statement "we don't eat dog"? Isn't the whole point to reflect on the human integration with the ecosystem as a whole? In which case, global mores are important to consider.
> If you want people to "care", be careful what you wish for. We could drastically
reduce our human carbon emissions by feeding all the first-world vegans to pigs,
and improve our signal-to-noise ratio on the Internet as well. /sarc
Why is this marked as sarcasm? The greatest personal contribution to the
reduction of carbon gas emissions that a person can possibly make is to stop
breathing, although that's true for non-vegans as well.
Meanwhile, almost 75% of greenhouse gas emissions come from power production and
so from burning fossil fuels:
It's burning fossil fuels that's causing climate change, not eating cows and
certainly not eating pigs and chickens (who are the most widely consumed meat
animals). We've had farming for more than 10 thousand years but the
greenhouse effect causing climate change started only in the last couple hundred
years, along with the Industrial Revolution. Why? Because the carbon gasses
released by farming are part of the carbon cycle that circulates carbon gasses
between the atmosphere and the biosphere, and that is relatively stable and has
never caused a greenhouse effect in the billion years of life on the planet.
While burning fossil fuels releases carbon gasses at rates and amounts that the
natural mechanisms in the environment that normally bind carbon can't cope with:
The idea that eating cows causes climate change is the dirty lie of vegan
propaganda, spread by people who, in truth, don't know anything about the
environment and don't really care about the environment or climate change and
only care about whether other people eat meat. It is a lie because it's false
and it's a dirty lie because it's obscuring the real cause of climate change.
And it's the dirtiest of dirty lies because it tells people that they can save
the environment if they have a soy burger now and then, rather than giving up on
their cars (hear that OP?) not buying a new iphone twice a year, not flying to
their Instagrammable holiday destinations, not stuffing their houses with
useless houseould appliances and generally stopping their incredibly wasteful
use of energy produced by the burning of fossil fuels.
Who determines what types of energy consumption are just, and which are immoral and wrong? How much electricity and natural resources are burnt up in popular endeavors such as alcohol and marijuana production?
https://insidesources.com/resources-innovation-institute-how... https://emagazine.com/environmental-impact-of-alcohol/
We've got "climate activists" that fly in private jets to conferences just to chide the rest of us about "consumerism". Meanwhile I'm maintaining my physical fitness with an Army-surplus ammo can full of dirt, stuffed in a 30-year old backpack. I've had the same rugged Android phone for over 5 years. My two cars were manufactured in 2007 and 1994. Back when I still lived in the US, 2 of my 3 firearms were Communist surplus weapons from the ~1970s (SKSes). I wear mostly custom tailored shirts that I had made 9 years ago. I'm confident that my overall carbon footprint for the past 10 years or so is reasonably small. So No I don't stress out over said footprint. I just live frugally and buy stuff that lasts. I happen to like driving things with internal combustion engines and I like the taste of cow flesh.
Maybe there will come a time when climate change forces us all to no-shit fight each other for competition of scarce habitable land and food resources. If the planet melts....I'll fight to survive and thrive. If we are forced into Fallout-style vaults, I'll fight to survive and thrive. I'll teach my kids the same. My assessment is that I, and those I care about, have a higher probability of coming out on top in such a cataclysm than the people who tell me not to eat meat.
Climate alarmists/Polliver: "You lived your life for progress. You want to die for some chickens?" Omnivores/Clegane: "Someone is." https://youtu.be/LeYwkeX6xNI
If you want people to "care", be careful what you wish for. We could drastically reduce our human carbon emissions by feeding all the first-world vegans to pigs, and improve our signal-to-noise ratio on the Internet as well. /sarc
>>>And then you brag about having eating dogs like this post couldn't get any worse.
It's not a "brag", just a statement of factual reality: some major developed economies eat dog. It should cause people to reflect on their own positions. Who is "we" in the statement "we don't eat dog"? Isn't the whole point to reflect on the human integration with the ecosystem as a whole? In which case, global mores are important to consider.