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://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-beef-industry-fueling-amazon-rainforest-destruction-deforestation/

https://e360.yale.edu/features/marcel-gomes-interview

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2023-06-02/almost-a-billion-trees-felled-to-feed-appetite-for-brazilian-beef

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.

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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

They could also, I didn't know ... clean up their production processes and use alternative materials that aren't as harmful. Exxon isn't a good example of this, but there's plenty of mega corps which can do this. But they won't because our laws are structured in such a way that they are not Incentivized to do so.

And those CEOs flying their private jets for an hour are more harmful than me driving my car all year.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Vote with your pocketbook. Buy products that are produced sustainably- or if that isn't an option, buy less.

    Corporations aren't stupid - they are very good at making money. If company X could produce a product that 10% more expensive than their competitors but sold twice as well because it was more environmentally friendly, they would absolutely do so.

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