Eat less meat. kthx.
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2024
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And less vegetables, which are responsible for the other 70% of emissions.
Well, you need to eat something. But I guess after reducing meat, the next best thing would be fighting food waste.
One of those solutions should be recycling food waste into fertilizer. It’s ridiculous that all of those nutrients end up in landfills.
Many countries do have organic trash recycling. I'm not sure what they do with it though. Biogas?
Man, I'm tired of humanity min-maxing.
Sometimes it feels like everything we do, we compulsively scale it until resources are depleted and ecosystems collapse.
And because everything is globalized, that resource/ecosystem ends up being our whole planet. Anyone who does not participate, gets fucked anyways.
Without repeated optimization and limitless expansion, how will shareholders see the expected indefinite perpetual growth of their investments?
Put it in balloons and call some hippies?
More like call some ravers.
Both. I take it you’ve never been to a Grateful Dead or Phish show.
Nah, I got no patience for 20 minute renditions of songs that are 3 minutes on the record.