I didn’t mean a few individual changes. A few vegetarians traveling by bicycle aren’t going to make a difference. But you can’t only change economic incentives without changing consumption patterns. We will also need to move to plant based diets, reduce tourism, save water, etcetera.
That’s where I see most resistance now. It’s not people who don’t believe in climate change, but people who acknowledge the problem until they have to sacrifice some luxury they enjoy. Then it’s always somebody else who has to change first
Not sure travel is as much as a bogeyman as people wants to make it, but we need more efficient travel (hello trains). Most people travel far once or twice a year, it’s not the bread and butter of consumption and has a legitimate positive on peoples mental
While changing to vegetarian diets has no mental related negatives, vegan diets would need a bit of large scale community wide education first - As most people don’t know you can get more protein from nuts than just about any other nutrient on this planet, but damn do they know you can eat cheeses and eggs for the same.
Honestly the solution for changing peoples diets is however quite easy, let people pay their full costs. Abolish agricultural financial support for non essentials (all animal products) and let’s see if people wants meat or the yearly travel
Water is an industrial problem, but focusing on animal related products and fast fashion would get us far
I didn’t mean a few individual changes. A few vegetarians traveling by bicycle aren’t going to make a difference. But you can’t only change economic incentives without changing consumption patterns. We will also need to move to plant based diets, reduce tourism, save water, etcetera.
That’s where I see most resistance now. It’s not people who don’t believe in climate change, but people who acknowledge the problem until they have to sacrifice some luxury they enjoy. Then it’s always somebody else who has to change first
Not sure travel is as much as a bogeyman as people wants to make it, but we need more efficient travel (hello trains). Most people travel far once or twice a year, it’s not the bread and butter of consumption and has a legitimate positive on peoples mental
While changing to vegetarian diets has no mental related negatives, vegan diets would need a bit of large scale community wide education first - As most people don’t know you can get more protein from nuts than just about any other nutrient on this planet, but damn do they know you can eat cheeses and eggs for the same.
Honestly the solution for changing peoples diets is however quite easy, let people pay their full costs. Abolish agricultural financial support for non essentials (all animal products) and let’s see if people wants meat or the yearly travel
Water is an industrial problem, but focusing on animal related products and fast fashion would get us far