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[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Voting >>>> Personal energy usage [Using public transit instead of driving, Electric heating, efficient buildings, etc] >>>>>>>>>>>>> Non energy lifestyle choices.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

You can vote and make personal lifestyle/dietary sacrifices. It's not mutually exclusive

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

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.

To have any hope of meeting the central goal of the Paris Agreement, which is to limit global warming to 2°C or less, our carbon emissions must be reduced considerably, including those coming from agriculture. Clark et al. show that even if fossil fuel emissions were eliminated immediately, emissions from the global food system alone would make it impossible to limit warming to 1.5°C and difficult even to realize the 2°C target. Thus, major changes in how food is produced are needed if we want to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.

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https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aba7357

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.