Maybe, if you're only talking about individual people, but the big polluters are corporations, not people. That's where the focus should be.
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It doesn't have to. Don't flood the field, fight the weeds manually and grow your own rice...
Also I would love to know emissions from corn including the stupid use as fuel. We could also stop ocean floor dredging today if we wanted to and that would reduce CO2 emissions by the amount of the entire aviation industry. Its a stupid practice the destroys eco systems anyway.
There's actually a really interesting story here. Rice production, in addition to deforestation, has been linked to starting global warming about 5000 years ago. While the climate should have been naturally cooling due to decreased insolation, the methane released from the start of intensive rice agriculture and the CO2 from deforestation prevented this. Here's a summary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_anthropocene
P.S. fuck capitalists
Humanity's collective influence on global ecology has been detectable for thousands of years, but so have most species. I think there's a big difference between "We can tell that this species was here because it left an ecological marker" and "This species caused a major global die-off". It's the difference between an ecofascist "fuck humanity" and a communist "fuck capitalism". Not to imply you don't already consider that, just sayin for those reading who didn't.
On an inverse note, there's a fairly accepted theory that Europe's "Little Ice Age" was caused by the disease pandemics that wiped out 90% North America's population after first contact. In the centuries subsequent Columbus, an estimated 10% of the world's population succumbed to disease apocalypse and left previously-managed areas the combined size of France untended to regrow, lowering global CO2 enough to cause a several-hundred year cold snap and geopolitical knock-on effects across the world.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921818125003479
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age
https://allthatsinteresting.com/what-caused-the-little-ice-age
I kind of think we should first address the things that have changed the climate in the couple centuries since they were invented, and then tackle the stuff that took 5000 years.
The article just says that it was due to the rise of agriculture, not rice in particular.
Edit: and fuck capitalists
Yes like agriculture uses resources, resources need to be responsibly managed, not responsibly managing said resources either because we were 5,000 years ago and didn’t know better or if it’s now and we do know better we just aren’t willing to pay for it is what causes climate change not things just existing
Humans existing is bad for the environment, I propose we let more of the poors die.
This but unironically.
Every environmental activist out there who spends their afternoons shaming people online for going about their most mundane, domestic activities ("how dare you use a hot cycle for your single load of laundry!?") are actively complicit in enabling and normalizing billionaires' continued ravaging of the earth's resources. It keeps everyone distracted from the actual problem and trapped in an "us vs them" mentality where the public can never collectively unite to turn the heat around on those in power.
I'm not cutting my decompression-after-surviving-another-day-in-dystopia shower short while Musk installs another infinity pool in his Arizona summer home lol, so stop asking.
Eating two pounds of bacon fried beef on an asbestos bun is gonna kill you but there's no point putting it down if you're holding the elephants foot in your other hand put the one down or the other cannot kill you fast enough to matter.
Ever since data centers have begun consuming staggering amounts of water and electricity while providing unprecedented amounts of pollution/toxic waste/noise/more, I've really given up feeling responsibility for making the world better/cleaner. I'm not going to change my behaviors--I'll still recycle and be careful about energy/water consumption, but the advent of the data center threw a similar "fuck you" as when i discovered how little the recycling of plastic bottles actually makes any impact (and that we were basically sold a glaring lie + promise by major bottlers like coke and pepsi)
"We won't be fooled again" 🥴
Plastic recycling is actually picking up as the economics make more sense.
But its still better to use/buy things in more recyclable containers...
If we can ever get rid of the capitalists, we could switch to compostable containers for most or many goods. They've already been invented; they're just not seen as profitable to implement on a wide scale.
Remember, the 'carbon footprint' metric was invented by British Petroleum's PR team.
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Haha I'm killing the planet cause I can only afford to eat brown rice with beans. It's not even the CO2, it's the gigantic turds I'm dropping in the bowl #fibermaxxing
This reminds me of he time I got arrested for peeing in the lake right next to the chemical company dumping waste in via a 26 inch Dia. Pipe.
You peeing is indecent AND pollution. That heavy metal dumping is just pollution /s
I'd rather watch somebody peeing than watch what's coming out of the pipe. Indecent is a judgement call.
Sadly not your judgement. Some puritanical judgmental (maybe pedophile) gets to decide this decades before you are born
To anyone wondering, no, rice is not hurting the climate. Unlike many water-intense crops, people are not trying to grow rice in the middle of the American desert.
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Preach. It's a far cry from almonds lol
I would love to see how this sort of online propaganda goes over in the East Asian part of the world. Or just Eastern part of the world in general.
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