The root cause of the "environmental impact" is not meat itself, it's the number of people.
Like for most environmental issues it all boils down to 8 billion human beings and counting on this planet.
Like for most environmental issues it all boils down to 8 billion human beings and counting on this planet.
In Western countries population is already naturally dropping. What's needed first and foremost is a culture shift so that we stop seeing that as a negative. In any case, we have no choice because population cannot keep growing indefinitely in a finite space (which is what would lead to an actual dystopian outcome and we are getting there just looking at the state of the environment).
The very fact that you replied what you replied just now after I mentioned population levels shows how the public has been conditioned.