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As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world.  About 1C of total warming.  Second chart:  about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability.  Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases.  About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If eating no meat at all is too hard, from a climate perspective eating no beef will have the biggest impact. Eating no ruminants to be specific, but hardly anyone is eating bison/sheep/goat on the regular.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I went like 90% vegetarian and switched to the meat substitutes. If I can do it, anyone can. I've always had a meat-a-saurus diet until 2-3 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've only met one person who couldn't go veg, because they had allergies to everything: soy, legumes, nuts.

There's been a lot of obsession with protein in popular culture when in reality unless you're a bodybuilder you don't need a ton and a veg diet will suffice. And there are tons of vegan athletes.

The point I was making is that there is one step even the laziest can take to have an impact: just stop eating beef. Going full veg is better of course.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Beef should be easy, too, because it’s so goddamn expensive.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lamb is popular in the UK. Beef is actually behind chicken and pork already.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Is lamb a regular dish or more of a Christmas and special occasion dish? I'm not in the UK so I genuinely don't know. Not sure that you can get lamb at a fast food joint like you can with beef burgers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Shepherd's pie is a fairly regular Sunday meal.

And kebab meat is normally lamb. You can get that at pretty much any takeaway chippy in the country, and is traditionally eaten with about six pints of cheap lager.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

A joint of lamb is a special occasion dish, but I think the statistics are skewed by the massive number of drunkenly-consumed kebabs

[–] theonlytruescotsman 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm in the US and can get lamb at fast food joints. Go to any Mediterranean shop for a gyro. Afaik it's even more available in the UK since it's primarily sold as people food, not dog food like the US market.

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

I'm in Canada and there aren't a lot of shops with gyros. Tons of shawarma though, but that's all beef or chicken.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I eat bison instead of beef, that way I'm a big part of a smaller problem rather than the other way around.