Researchers have linked dietary data from over 55,000 individuals with data on the environmental impacts of the foods they eat. The team, from the Livestock, Environment and People (LEAP) project at the University of Oxford, found that the dietary impacts of vegans were around a third of those of high meat eaters. They also saw a 30% difference between high- and low-meat diets for most of the measures of environmental harm.
  • penguin@sh.itjust.works
    95·
    11 months ago

    No individual average person can do anything of significance to fight climate change or have a meaningful impact on the global environment. Only governments or massive organizations can.

    If you could do an alternate reality type thing, where one version of you lives a perfect life, environmentally speaking, and the other version lives the worst, the world would be the same at the end of both.

    • Vegoon@feddit.de
      131·
      11 months ago

      Its not about one person preventing climate change alone, first step is not supporting climate change. Then people around you see that it’s not black magic and that they can do it too. We are now at 2%, 3%? vegans. A change in society needs 10% to have a critical mass. If you decide to go vegan, for the animals, for the climate, for your health, and make others think about and maybe even change one other persons view you did better than most.

      If you don’t you are not passive, you are actively supporting it and showing others that its OK.

      • Eating meat is actively supporting the industry and everything that comes with it.

      • Silently not supporting it with a plant based diet is the passive position.

      • Actively fighting against it is the real fight against the industry.

      Governments will not act against the will of the voters alone. They have to have some support to even consider making change. Massive organizations live from the participation from people, from you.

      • penguin@sh.itjust.works
        21·
        11 months ago

        I don’t eat meat. But that’s beside the point.

        There’s a difference between one person doing something and 10% of the population doing it. The latter would have a meaningful impact, but the former would not.

        And the key part of my point is the average individual cannot make 10% of the population do anything.

        If 10% of the population are vegetarians, it has nothing to do with what any single person did. A single person is almost always powerless to affect the world.

        • Vegoon@feddit.de
          11·
          11 months ago

          I have not power over 10%, like you said. But have the power over me, and my choices and for what I want to be responsible. 10% is just 800.000 single persons making a choice and not hiding from responsibility.

          It is not going away and will only be more urgent and more visible. You don’t have to do it alone if you want to have more impact. Join groups and organizations, go out and protest. If you want change it does not have to stop at your plate. Go out and talk to people about why you are vegan, be the change you want to see.