• LostXOR
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    314 days ago

    I agree with the first one, the second one is factually incorrect (agriculture is only 10% of human CO2 emissions even in the meat-hungry US), and I have no clue what Mass Effect is so I can’t comment on the last one.

    • @astutemural@midwest.social
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      314 days ago

      It ain’t the emissions, it’s the land use. About 40% of the USA’s land is used for animal agriculture. Another 8% is for literally all the other crops. Stop eating meat, and we could return about a third of the land in the US to nature, or other uses. That’s a lot of carbon capture / solar power plants etc.

      • LostXOR
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        214 days ago

        That’s a good point, though there’s a significant financial barrier to building renewable infrastructure that doesn’t go away just because land is available.