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Re:US emissions fell 2.1% in 2019 by oldprogrammer2 on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @11:49PM (#21998656)
No, just stop eating meat and spread that message to everyone. You don’t need big acts of legislation.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02409-7

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Re:US emissions fell 2.1% in 2019 by enilas on Thursday January 09, 2020 @04:35PM (#22006078)
To that I raise this: https://www.reddit.com/r/zerocarb/comments/am5fo3/environmen...

Vegetarianism could be fine if it's only with crops grown locally with not a whole lot of transportation involved, but that's not likely to happen anytime soon. Not to mention individuals have very little impact on the actual problem.

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10...

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Re:US emissions fell 2.1% in 2019 by gxon on Friday January 10, 2020 @08:21PM (#22017352)
Even if we grant that this is all we need to do (I don't believe it is), you can't honestly be suggesting that 8 billion people are going to wake up this year and decide to voluntarily sacrifice such a primal desire.

Without big acts of legislation, this will only become reality when lab grown meat becomes significantly cheaper and available. That could be decades away, which is too late.

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