Re:Foods for healthier people and a healthier planet [pdf]
by intopieces on Sunday April 07, 2019 @12:58PM
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>The Earth will fix itself...
I suppose this depends on your definition of "fix," but this sounds suspiciously like the Gaia hypothesis:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis
Which is closer to wishful thinking than science. Sure, Earth will go on, because Earth doesn't care. But humans are facing a climate catastrophe if they do not course-correct their impact on the planet, and that is what we mean by "good for the Earth" -- that is, good for the maintaining the planet as a place where we want to live.
Re:Foods for healthier people and a healthier planet [pdf]
by random878 on Sunday April 07, 2019 @01:16PM
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That's analogous to the commonly held, stupid opinion that you may as well smoke because you have to die of something.
Re:Foods for healthier people and a healthier planet [pdf]
by cableshaft on Sunday April 07, 2019 @06:43PM
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To quote the late George Carlin: "The planet is fine! The people are fucked!"
Re:Foods for healthier people and a healthier planet [pdf]
by byteman on Sunday April 07, 2019 @01:26PM
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Well sure - if nothing matters, it also doesn't matter we consume a lot of animal products and ruin our tiny planet as we used to know it.
If anything does matter, we should reduce our consumption and production of animal based products.
The Earth will fix itself, eventually, no matter what we do to it. It's seen worse. I mean it apparently went from a ball of lava pelted with meteorite-nukes to the only verdant garden we have ever known, and it has already been through at least a few cataclysms.
Even if the planet disappears overnight, the universe at large will still go on as if we never existed.
You choose the scale you want to care about, and some levels require some sacrifice on other levels.