Might have something to do with the sudden and rapid onset of people pushing for bug based diets? Don’t tell me you have not noticed that bugs went from a novelty that you got covered in chocolate or embedded in a sucker to “let’s put cricket protein in everything, fuck people with shellfish allergies!” within the last 1-2 years.
I don’t know what to tell you if you think bugs are an extreme rather than the goal.
We could summarize your entire comment as you not wanting to do anything yourself because you can’t easily do everything yourself.
So you’d be wrong. You can do things without reducing your quality of life to aid the rich which is 100% what you’re advocating for (because you’re a billionaire simp).
To rapid fire respond to the rest of it: investors are putting money into hydrogen and electric planes, they are putting money into lab grown meat, lab grown meat would not literally solve the problem (vegetables and grains would), and you can still enjoy life without eating a beef burger.
Ahhh yes, we should be barred from eating any and all meat, soy and bugs only, but the billionaires should still be able to enjoy steaks and burgers right? Also, why don’t you give up everything you enjoy? Cut off all of your streaming subscriptions because data centers are huge environmental concerns in of themselves! Sell your house because I am sure that’s bad for the planet somehow. You should be restricted to a pod all hours of the day that you’re not slaving away at your job! Actually, let’s go full bore, let’s fine you every single time you flatulate because that’s methane output and methane is bad! Nevermind that the vegan diet they’re going to force you on leads to more of that.
Also, you clearly don’t know how dirty your average produce is lol lmao. How do you think you’re able to go to the grocery store and pick up a carrot no matter what part of the year it is? So following your ruleset, unless you want to be hypocritical, you should only be allowed to purchase veggies that are currently growing locally.
If billionaires controlled either of us, do you think I’m more under their control by eating vegetables and chicken patties than you are eating the beef they sold you instead?
So that would be you given you’re simping for them and playing right into their hand. Also, drop the disingenuous argument, we all know the likes of Gates aren’t the ones selling me a burger. People like those in the Mars family (one of the richest families in the food industry) aren’t jetsetting around telling us to have no enjoyment out of life.
Do you think billionaires wouldn’t profit off of you flying in an airplane more?
Again, not the same billionaires that would be enriched with my consumption. Though Bombardier’s CEO is on the climate virtue signal train just in case you needed some extra juicy irony, and I don’t exactly see him investing into selling a hydrogen powered private jet. I will never have any interaction with any one of their products.
Do you think climate friendly transportation options like public transit and cycling stand to make billionaires more money than the likes of cars and commercial flights?
This is where I think you fail to see the point entirely. It’s not about making them money, lol lmao, it’s about further enrichment of themselves at your detriment. Why do you think the people who can most afford the things that they demand us to do are the ones least likely to do them? Because 👏 it’s 👏 about 👏 control 👏 not 👏 about 👏 the 👏 climate. It’s why you see Gates enjoying a big juicy steak while at the same time telling you you don’t deserve to have a steak.
I feel like we’re more under corporate control ignoring climate advice than we are following it.
Just ignore the fact that climate activists were funded by corporations such as the oil corps.
Well in that case you might as well give up all your possessions and find your nearest bugburger vendor because you clearly don’t deserve to enjoy life. Just work, go home, and do nothing all day! Or you can say fuck that and go out to enjoy your life to spite these rich assholes.
So the solution is to remove the 10, but no one ever advocates for that oddly enough. It’s funny seeing people in this specific debate simp for billionaires and do exactly as they want, for example you with this very comment.
I am betting that you’ll be the first to switch to bug burgers and give up your home for a pod. So here’s the thing, when you live in a location for tourism (as I do, by the way) it gets kinda boring due to this little fact that you live there. The point of traveling/vacations is to see something new, to have diverse experiences, you can’t really have that in your home turf so to speak. Sure, you can go out and do things for fun on days off or whatever, but to actually vacation you’re going to want to go out of your home turf. Hitting the same hiking trail for the 1000th time doesn’t really hit the same as going somewhere you’ve never been before, or somewhere you’ve not visited much.
Yet all of your effort is obliterated by a single private jet flight.
Wind farms have been a complete and total disaster in Germany, however. Also, the UK is not doing too hot either it’s having to rely heavily on coal plants. Seems like every locale that decides to hedge its bets on wind rather than nuclear always has this issue where they have to use coal to make up for wind power’s deficiencies.
Nuclear power only takes a long time due to government red tape pushed by idiot environmentalists (who, ironically, got major financial backing from oil corps). Literally most of the time taken to build nuclear is clearing regulatory hurdles. Also, you should see what shutting down nuclear in favor of wind has done to Germany. They literally had to go back and restart coal plants because, guess what, wind fucking sucks and Germany doesn’t have the geography for hydro.
Oh, and the time to build nuclear can be further reduced (pending removal of red tape) by converting coal plants to nuclear. I think people forget a nuclear power plant is just a steam turbine powered by a hot rock, and a coal power plant is a steam generator powered by burning a rock. The majority of the construction is building the actual turbine component so you can literally just swap out the power source for said component.
Trains also become a non-starter if there’s a significant body of water such as an ocean between you and your desired travel destination.
Show me a single train that goes across oceans. Also don’t mention ships lol because I will tear you up on that point as ships burn literally the worst fuel imaginable for the environment.
It can be bad to fly around in a private jet and to eat beef at the same time.
So there’s the billionaire simps. No, jetting around everywhere is much worse than enjoying a steak, and guess what these elitist assholes do? Both of these things. Are you actually going to be happy eating soy or bug burgers for the rest of your life while they enjoy fillet mignons? Why does the “eat the rich” rhetoric suddenly die out in this particular debate?
Just because someone else isn’t walking the walk, that doesn’t make it meaningless for you to do so.
Except it kinda does as their continued burn of private jet fuel yearly is worse than every single flight I’ve taken in the last decade combined multiplied by a factor of 100. You have to remember when a peon such as yourself takes a 747 your CO2 output is shared between every single person on that plane plus any potential cargo (including dead bodies, this is more common than you think) meaning your impact is actually not that much. When Bill Gates jet sets to Davos to tell you to eat the bugs and live in the pod that fuel burned is used solely on him meaning his impact is much larger than yours ever could be.
Also, notice how none of these rich asshats are investing in electric or hydrogen aircraft? Or lab grown meat? That would literally solve the climate issue while still allowing us peons to enjoy life a little bit. It actually might even bring down the cost of flying so that even more people can enjoy things. They don’t support these things because it’s not about the environment, it’s not about climate change, it’s about controlling you. It’s about making you live the lowest quality of life possible to enrich them which again it’s funny how the “eat the rich” narrative vanishes during this specific debate.
That’s where eating less meat, especially beef, comes from. (Also it’s just unsustainable for people to eat as much meat as the average American, for reasons beyond climate change.)
Yeah so do you know how polluting your average vegetable is in terms of the climate? Are you also willing to only eat veggies that are grown in your local vicinity during their on-season? That means if beans just aren’t grown close to you, or it’s not the on-season for growing beans in your area, you’re just not allowed to eat beans because that’d mean trucking them in and trucks burn fuel which is bad for the planet!
You can’t be selective just because you may not personally eat meat. It’s either all or nothing or else you start to become hypocritical.
I was talking more about flying which is associated with vacations and travel which 100% does affect quality of life.
I can agree to an extent, but I don’t think you should have to suffer for the sake of those jackasses. Lol I am waiting for the billionaire simps to flood in and defend people like Gates, they tend to flood in on topics like this.
I would recommend not reducing your quality of life to offset the output of the very people telling you to stop enjoying life. You taking a flight on a mass transit jet pollutes almost nothing in comparison to these jackasses flying around on private jets to virtue signal about the climate. When they at the very least decide to fly business class instead of taking their own jets I will take them at least somewhat seriously, but that’d mean they have the possibility of interacting with us normal folk so that’ll never happen.
try to fly less (maybe even drive less).
You’re aiming this at the wrong people bud.
Billionaires fly in to Cop26 climate conference in parade of polluting private jets
So we’re going to build more nuclear and hydro right instead of relying on shitass wind power (like Germany, worked out real well for them)? Right? Oh, no, we’re probably going to double-down against nuclear while people like Gates fly around in private jets telling us to stop eating meat.
I can’t even argue with this level of reality denial lol.