Going Vegan Won’t Save the Planet

Re:Going Vegan Won’t Save the Planet by falcolas on Thursday October 10, 2019 @11:45AM (#21215847)

I am being a bit selfish - but I think that applies even to philanthropists. They do it because it makes them feel good, or to atone for past sins, or to make future generations look upon them as "good".

But I also disagree that my individual effort will have even the smallest effect. I'm one of nine billion. We frequently underestimate how big a number that is, and how insignificant the individual is when looked at as part of the whole.

You could count people at a rate of 10 a second, and still take 70 years of non-stop counting to count everyone in the world.

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Re:Going Vegan Won’t Save the Planet by loblollyboy on Thursday October 10, 2019 @11:59AM (#21216028)

You are not the only person in this world. Maybe the change will need to be forced upon us, but there are big changes that started grass-roots

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Re:Going Vegan Won’t Save the Planet by falcolas on Thursday October 10, 2019 @12:25PM (#21216369)

No, I'm not the only person in the world. But I'm also not very unique in most of my point of views. There's a lot of people who, when asked these same questions will provide very similar answers (especially once you move past any "politeness").

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