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spodek86 karma

Also, reduce consumption:

  • Eat less meat

  • Fly less

  • Drive less

  • Have fewer kids

  • Buy less

  • etc

Note, none of the above means lowering your quality of life or happiness. Reducing dependence on material stuff for your happiness will generally enable you to increase it.

spodek26 karma

Mostly people are clearing space for it by overfishing.

spodek7 karma

I believe that reaching sustainability will require leaders who act the way they suggest others to -- in particular, to personally stay below IPCC per capita emissions. Otherwise, saying one thing and doing another will lead everyone else to say one thing and doing another.

Do you know any elected official or candidate in the U.S. or world, or member of the Sunrise Movement who is keeping below IPCC recommendations -- for example, roughly no more than one cross-country flight per year, not eating much meat, etc -- or consuming very little plastic?

spodek6 karma

The greenhouse effect depends on greenhouse gases, not if what causes their emission is human or not.

More kids = more emissions, especially American kids.

spodek4 karma

they're making the route regardless.

That's not how supply and demand works.