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Colleges Reduce Emissions by Offering Plant-Based Options by Default, Study Finds (sentientmedia.org)

submitted 1 year ago by usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml to c/green@lemmy.ml

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[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

You know what else they could do to reduce emissions?

Not spend obscene amounts of money building fucking sports stadiums.

Oh, and more importantly, they could make sure the curriculum is all open-source and freely available in PDF/MOBI/EPUB formats, and if someone really needs a paper copy of the book they can have one printed and bound for $25.

That would cut a lot of emissions from selling books that get used one year, then get sold back to the bookstore for $2 and then forgotten, because the shiny new edition just dopped and the only difference is they switched two chapters around and added one new definition but you better get the new fucking book. Fuck some trees, amirite?

College books aren't just a racket, they're a big source of pollution by creating books with a limited shelf-life.

[–] pizzaiolo@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

All great ideas

[–] hh93@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Nice whataboutism without any numbers.

A meat heavy diet is one of the main impacts a single person has on climate - and switching to a meat-free one is pretty much only about breaking an existing habit as this actions shows very well.

If it's easier to take the vegetarian options and meat isn't the default then people are far more likely to change their habits - that is imho the bigger takeaway than what a college's emissions are

[–] RockyBockySocky@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

I mean yes but animal products are incredibly harmful, we should stop both.

[–] BloodSlut@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I think this is a great way to promote greener living.

Facilitating an effective relative boost in convenience can have a massive impact while still maintaining freedom of choice.

It's like putting your running shoes by the door and the TV remote/your phone in a container.

By making the better choice more convenient, even if the worse choice brings more pleasure, you greatly increase the ease of engagement with the better choice while still maintaining the worse choice if you really need it/have set aside an amount to engage in.

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