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Yes, Actually, Individual Responsibility Is Essential to Solving the Climate Crisis (www.sierraclub.org)
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A fixation on system change alone opens the door to a kind of cynical self-absolution that divorces personal commitment from political belief. This is its own kind of false consciousness, one that threatens to create a cheapened climate politics incommensurate with this urgent moment.

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Because here’s the thing: When you choose to eat less meat or take the bus instead of driving or have fewer children, you are making a statement that your actions matter, that it’s not too late to avert climate catastrophe, that you have power. To take a measure of personal responsibility for climate change doesn’t have to distract from your political activism—if anything, it amplifies it.

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[–] stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why not try to do both?

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's fine, but the focus should be on the thing with 99% leverage and not on the thing with 1% leverage.

[–] Sas@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The thing with 99% leverage sadly has only a chance of 1% to happen while the 1% leverage thing you can just make happen. And if you make the 1% thing happen in more people the votes for the 99% thing start to go up as well. And eating less meat does have an impact. For years now i read headlines that year n had less pig meat being eaten in total than year n-1 (pork being the focus as my country afaik does not have a big beef industry so it's not as relevant to report about it)

We have very little influence on the industry as a whole but if you buy less meat, the meat industry actually becomes smaller over time. The alternative products also become more and more. Super markets over here all have a vegan shelf at least and there's more vegan only restaurants opening up in my city that even made my meat eater colleagues go there to eat from time to time.

[–] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

if you buy less meat, the meat industry actually becomes smaller over time.

that has never happened.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/meat-production-tonnes?tab=chart&country=~OWID_WRL

[–] Sas@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/meat-production-tonnes?tab=chart&country=~DEU I'm talking over here where our meat industry has become smaller each year for 8 years now

or here the whole of EU if you want https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/meat-production-tonnes?tab=chart&country=OWID_EU27~OWID_EUR~DEU

[–] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

if the industry continues to grow, the location of the farms doesn't seem to matter.