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Greta’s school strikes led 30% of Swiss citizens to change habits (www.euronews.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The environmentally beneficial effects of plant based diets or a vegan lifestyle are not reduced to harmful GHG emissions alone but encompass a wide range of advantages. To name some:

  • Reduced agricultural land use (the vast majority of land is used to grow cattle feed). This can also reduce deforestation (especially interesting in the Amazon region), increase ground water and soil quality. Avoids soil erosion. It also perserves eco systems on land and helps to mitigate species extinction.
  • Water usage. It takes about 1000x to produce meat than to produce an equivalent amount of, e.g., wheat.
  • Reduction of overfishing and thereby protecting and stabilizing oceanic eco system.
  • Reduction of the huge amount of water and air pollution caused by the animal industry.
[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Same thing can be said for all the carbon reduction measures, producing less leads to consuming less of everything, especially technology products.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

In general sure, producing less and consuming less leads to less impacts. But there are quite the differences in what and how we consume it with regard to their impacts. For example, we don't need agricultural space for mining cobalt to build batteries which power electric cars.