• grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    7 months ago

    This is Lemmy; we can put that slightly more extreme version right here!

    (I don’t think it really is NSFW, but I’ll put it behind a spoiler tag to honor your opinion.)

    NSFW

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
      9·
      7 months ago

      I don’t think it really is NSFW

      Not that I find it in any way objectionable myself, but I’d say that in a very literal sense it’s not safe for work. At least if you work for a corporation or similar type of soulless entity 😉

    • psud@lemmy.world
      23·
      7 months ago

      I haven’t yet been convinced that giving up meat can help. Specifically, I haven’t seen the question of what happens to the grazing land.

      If it is left to burn, the carbon it contains cycles grass ➡️ fire ➡️ CO2, particles ➡️ grass, etc

      If it’s left to rot it’s grass ➡️ methane, CO2 ➡️ grass

      If it is rewilded the carbon cycles grass ➡️ meat, methane ➡️ predators, etc

      If left as it is it’s the same, but with us in place of the predators.

      I really feel like there is no way of preventing the carbon emissions of grasslands, but at least if they’re making meat for us we can work on engineering a way out of the methane release, and people are working on that

      And at worst it’s not fossil carbon, it’s renewable, the carbon emitted is captured again when the grass regrows

      There’s carbon in the farm equipment, but that’s the same in all farming

  • NutWrench@lemmy.world
    9·
    7 months ago

    And in the 1970s it was, “we all need to tighten our belts and conserve resources.”

    Guess which part of society didn’t follow that advice at all?

    • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      How about: regulate the 10 largest companies and we can save the Earth?

      Good plan. Don’t see that happen. Yesterday I briefly imagined that a small group of billionaires left the burning planet Earth in their spaceship. And angry politicians were surprisingly not allowed in that ship. And the masses were sad for the politicians while the melting earth was transforming into dust and ashes.

  • gorgori@lemmy.world
    421·
    7 months ago

    To be honest, we are fucking up the planet at an exponentially faster rate, so it is natural that mitigation solutions seems exponentially crazier.

    There are people that believe that doing these crazy things will actually reverse the damage.

    Then there are people like me who not only believe we are fucked but also believe that anything we do now is completely pointless as we are fucked either way so why bother.