Individual Climate Action

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Discuss actions that we can directly take as individuals to reduce environmental harm.

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[email protected] - Chatter on reducing GHG by way of reducing consumption of animal products (not necessarily environment-specific)
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[email protected] - Another vegan community, but apparently unreachable from slrpnk.net
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[email protected] - Landscaping in diverse low-waste ways
[email protected] - Buy stuff that lasts a long time, if you must buy something
[email protected] - Buy stuff that lasts a long time, if you must buy something
[email protected] - fix it, don’t replace it
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[email protected] - exercise your right to fix stuff
[email protected] - exercise your right to fix stuff
[email protected] - sustainable technology
[email protected] - To discuss computing that’s not resource intensive
[email protected] - To discuss computing that’s not resource intensive
[email protected] - To discuss waste avoidance
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[email protected] - sustainable travel, if you must travel

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[email protected] - For chatter specifically related to green energy
[email protected] - Economics of reducing excessive consumption
[email protected] - Discuss CO₂ removal
[email protected] - Discuss forestation and reforestation
[email protected] - Discuss reclaiming disturbed lands
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Eating Meat Is Bad for Climate Change, and Here Are All the Studies That Prove It (sentientmedia.org)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Concur with all of that. I’m not vegan yet but took these easy first steps:

meat 1-2 times per week, instead of daily. The frequency is dropping from one year to the next.
refuse to pay full price for meat. Wait until the meat is about to expire and buy it after the grocer is forced to mark it down (30—50% off). This helps quite a bit because you dramatically cut down the profits that drive the meat industry (your portion of those profits). Since beef is the top problem, I insist on a near-expiry markdown of 50% before I will buy it.

Better than vegan: steal the meat. Vegans are just neutral. They neither contribute nor cause detriment to animal agriculture. If you shoplift the meat, you cost them money and make the business case even less sustainable than vegans.

Another option: hunt wild game and eat that in place of farmed meat.