Red meat has a huge carbon footprint because cattle requires a large amount of land and water.
https://sph.tulane.edu/climate-and-food-environmental-impact-beef-consumption
Demand for steaks and burgers is the primary driver of Deforestation:
https://e360.yale.edu/features/marcel-gomes-interview
If you don’t have a car and rarely eat red meat, you are doing GREAT 🙌 🙌
Sure, you can drink tap water instead of plastic water. You can switch to Tea. You can travel by train. You can use Linux instead of Windows AI’s crap. Those are great ideas. Also, don’t drive yourself crazy. If you are only an ordinary citizen, remember that perfect is the enemy of good.
so how many burgers do I skip to compensate for one of Musk’s jet joy rides?
Look, it’s simple. Fighting climate change is like taxes.
You don’t have to give up 100% of your money to have roads and fire trucks.
You alone won’t make much a difference. But multiply it by many people, and it’s easy to get rid of Musk.
Oh, and I guess eat less burgers too I guess
Ok full disclosure, I do recycle, eat less meat (because of the environment not because I don’t really really miss it), walk/bike/scoot wherever I go if feasible before firing my 8 year old Prius, make everything I can at home (much to the detriment of my wife’s good humour hahaha), etc
However, your analogy does not hold. I am not killing myself for the environment but if I did, it would be like cleaning a grain of sand off a beach… All of us, together, may make a noticeable hole in some beach… but Musk alone is driving truck loads full of sand back into this beach and multiple other beaches we have not even started to clean yet.
Attempting to significantly reduce (much less reverse) climate change from the consumer side is like trying to stop a runaway train by blowing on it
I can’t straight up say what I’m saying, because rules, allegedly.
I meant together a bunch of people could get rid of Musk, in Minecraft. Ban him from the world server permanently. You know, from mass reporting
Some rough math says pretty much all of them, and you’ll need to stop heating your house too.
well worth it as long as billionaires remain happy… I could be one of them one of these days, you know?