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Voting >>>> Personal energy usage [Using public transit instead of driving, Electric heating, efficient buildings, etc] >>>>>>>>>>>>> Non energy lifestyle choices.
You can vote and make personal lifestyle/dietary sacrifices. It's not mutually exclusive
It matters much more than you might think. The emissions from the meat, dairy, etc. industry on their own are enough to make us miss climate targets.
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https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aba7357
I'm sorry, voting won't save us, not while the interests of oil barons supercede the interests of humanity as a whole.
Biden Administration Approves Huge Alaska Oil Project - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/12/climate/biden-willow-arctic-drilling-restrictions.html
Biden administration moves ahead with massive Gulf of Mexico drilling ... - CNN https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/03/29/politics/gulf-of-mexico-drilling-lease-sale-biden-climate/index.html
Is just voting enough on its own, no, but giving up and not voting or voting for worse candidates can make us go from bad to terrible. Every fraction of a degree of warming matters here
yes, absolutely, but when both of the choices you're presented with are equally disastrous for the environment, there's nothing you can realistically do by just voting. The superstructure that stands in the way of real, actual change needs to be destroyed.