Stop buying stuff. Eat less meat.
If the “stuff” for example comes from recycled, fairly low emissions techniques of manufacturing combined renewable energy, who care? This is just generalising and it’s not realistic.
Ultimately burning coal for power generation and using oil for transport are the main culprits.
Eating less meat seems sensible, but it’s still not easy either, getting enough protein from a vegetarian diet is challenging for many.
I'm no elite athlete but I've been vegan 3 years. In those 3 years I've completed 2 Ironmans with no meat/eggs/dairy, no protein supplementation and no issues whatsoever.
Still, eating less meat would not help at all. Biggest polluters and energy users are industries not related to food.
Individuals are not to blame for their consumption, unless we blame them for adjusting their morals to fit their immoral companies.
It's inexpensive, easy, filling, healthy and tasty as all get-out.
Along with pan-fried mushrooms and onions mixed with bulgur (also an Ottolenghi recipe), it was extremely satisfying.
It's a major problem that we are now eating the equivalent of the sunday roast every single day. We should go back to making big cuts of meat a rare treat, and make most days meat-free.
I also agree that individual action won't change much by itself, but we should still do it, and work to hold corporations responsible for their environmental conduct.
> Ultimately burning coal for power generation and using oil for transport are the main culprits.
And all the stuff mentioned requires both. Huge transport ships produce more pollution than all cars of the world combined. But many like to buy 0.99$ gadgets from China, shipping included, right?
That's not really true. They produce more of one type. (SO2) But certainly not more by volume, or by GHG content.
That said, shipping uses bunker oil, which is a nasty piece of work.
And we should transition to electrified rail based shipping, powered by nuclear and renewables. But Hawaii is out of luck, at least Eurasia can be connected to the Americas sort of easily at the Bering strait.
No poor illiterate guy in 3rd world country will think like that. They will have 10 kids, and their kids will have 10 kids unless eventually lifted from poverty. They are not going to fix these issues by themselves.
If you are afraid of long term commitment and dedicating big part of your life to raising a good balanced human being(s), that's another story. But if you are smart, well-off, you would do MUCH better for our future to raise next generation of environment-conscious citizens of this world.
This seems bullshit. There are probably a few thousand serial killers, but there are vastly more eco-firendly people, who all are trying to solve global warming, and a lot of them are actually solving it. Every time they vote for a candidate that is eco-friendly, every time they make decisions that are aligned with the goal.