Eating meat creates four times more greenhouse gases than being vegan, study finds
www.independent.co.uk
Meat-free eating found to have much lower environmental impact on land use, water pollution risk, water use and biodiversity loss
  • ClockworkOtter@lemmy.worldEnglish
    79·
    1 year ago

    Because if we don’t have children then who are we saving the planet for? There are very clear and achievable ways to massively reduce our individual and collective emissions which we can pass onto our descendents for a sustainable future.

    • Oderus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      123·
      1 year ago

      Because if we don’t have children then who are we saving the planet for?

      Because someone else will have children. Not every human needs to procreate to keep our species alive. We’re at 8 Billion and going strong.

        • such_fifty_bucks@lemmy.oneEnglish
          61·
          1 year ago

          So someone should only care about their progeny, everyone else is ‘irrelevant’. That’s certainly a take.

          • ClockworkOtter@lemmy.worldEnglish
            31·
            1 year ago

            The previous poster was suggesting that they could make a choice between going vegan and remaining childless, implying that they’re both difficult to live with. Since one option was irrelevant, there should still be the capacity to take the other.

        • Oderus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          1 year ago

          I don’t believe my lacking of kids means anything with regards to my eating habits. If I want to go Vegan or Vegetarian, then I will, whether I have kids or not.