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Re:Ask HN: What can I do to actively fight climate change? by andrewljohnson on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @05:35PM (#28610301)
Getting people not to eat heavy-carbon-usage-meat at scale might be impactful... like found a lab meat company or something.

I just don't think being a vegetarian has impact... it's something you do to keep consistent with your worldview or morality, not to mitigate climate change.

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Re:Ask HN: What can I do to actively fight climate change? by giantg2 on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @07:58PM (#28611545)
How can a "no impact" activity like not eating meat scale to be impactful?

An individual's actions does have an impact, albeit a small one. It is measurable (CO2 savings from not eating that meat). Discouraging individuals from participating in individual efforts will prevent the group from achieving scale.

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Re:Ask HN: What can I do to actively fight climate change? by andrewljohnson on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @08:44PM (#28611873)
I'm not discouraging an individual from eating meat... I'm encouraging an individual to not buy into the idea that not eating meat will achieve their stated goal.
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Re:Ask HN: What can I do to actively fight climate change? by giantg2 on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @09:00PM (#28611986)
Isn't the stated goal to reduce their contribution to climate change through eliminating meat related CO2 emissions? Seems like it works.
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Re:Ask HN: What can I do to actively fight climate change? by AzzieElbab on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @08:01AM (#28615365)
Doesn’t sound measurable. The whole “don’t eat meat, save the environment” debate should be centred around corn fed beef to begin with
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Re:Ask HN: What can I do to actively fight climate change? by giantg2 on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @10:51AM (#28616966)
How is it not measurable?
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