Red meat has a huge carbon footprint because cattle requires a large amount of land and water.

https://sph.tulane.edu/climate-and-food-environmental-impact-beef-consumption

Demand for steaks and burgers is the primary driver of Deforestation:

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-beef-industry-fueling-amazon-rainforest-destruction-deforestation/

https://e360.yale.edu/features/marcel-gomes-interview

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2023-06-02/almost-a-billion-trees-felled-to-feed-appetite-for-brazilian-beef

If you don’t have a car and rarely eat red meat, you are doing GREAT 🙌🙌 🙌

Sure, you can drink tap water instead of plastic water. You can switch to Tea. You can travel by train. You can use Linux instead of Windows AI’s crap. Those are great ideas. But, don’t drive yourself crazy. If you are only an ordinary citizen, remember that perfect is the enemy of good.

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    • Only a small subset of people who don’t have kids are antinatalists.
    • Antinatalism is not eugenics.
    • Environmentalism is the opposite of fascism, actually. When you stick up for the environment, you’re with the good guys.
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      Environmentalism is the opposite of fascism

      ecofascism is a real phenomenon. there is a cure for political illiteracy.

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      2 truths and a lie…the deep ecology movement and the Unabomber would seem to undermine your third claim

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      Only a small subset of people who don’t have kids are antinatalists.

      i’m not talking about people who don’t have kids. i’m talking about people who advocate for people not to have kids.

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      Antinatalism is not eugenics.

      maybe not in and of itself, but any advocacy for it or policies enforcing endorsing or causing it surely are.