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Eating Meat Is Bad for Climate Change, and Here Are All the Studies That Prove It
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this post was submitted on 07 Jan 2024
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Look at how much impact that first thing has, y'all. If you convince one person not to have another child that has the same impact as convincing sixty people to go plant based.
Fighting for reproductive rights is one of the most impactful things you can do for the climate.
Save the Earth, have an abortion.
Or convince 2-3 people to give up meat. If they each convince 2-3 people who each convince 2-3 people who… ok, I’ll stop…. But the point stands. They don’t even need to stop, just reduce their meat consumption.
Right so just convince literally everyone to go vegan. Sure.
Yes, that’s exactly what I said /s
Very true but these are separate things and both can be done.