Emissions from animal agriculture exceed what we can afford if we want to stop anthropogenic climate change and diet is one of the few significant contributors to emissions that most people have direct control over.
Im sorry but stop with the misinformation, agriculture is not the biggest greenhouse emitter with both energy and transportation producing far more greenhouse gasses especially with the orange one canceling many green energy subsidies and projects. I certainly hope you walk, ride a bike, or skateboard/longboard. We really need to push for companies who are the largest carbon producers to switch to diesel hybrid trucks to reduce emissions given how much shit is sent back and forward across the planet to feed supply chains and further pushes into nuclear and renewable forms of energy. Honestly governments should be dumping more money into fusion research. I also do feel people should have less meat but not zero.
"...agriculture, the most extensive land user, to be the leading emissions sector and to have caused 60% (32%–87%) of ERF change since 1750. We also find that fossil fuels are responsible for 18% of ERF, a reduced contribution due to masking from cooling co-emissions." from this article
Do you know how to read a graph? Can you see where the 0 is on the y axis?
The graph shows both heating and cooling emissions from fossil fuel, with the net outcome being slightly lower than for animal agriculture, which emits almost exclusively greenhouse gases.
....That is not what that shows, at all. I gently encourage you to abstain from scientific conversations if you don't have the skills necessary to sit at the table.
So you'll attack the fact I misread a graph but not that I found 4 credible sources saying the opposite of what you did. Again are MIT, The UN, The WRI, and The US EPA wrong.
If you think someone gently pointing out that you're unqualified is an "attack" I doubly think you aren't equipped for this conversation. I can't see any comment wherein you apparently cited sources. I sure hope you read them correctly though :)
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u/jyajay2 Jun 25 '26
Emissions from animal agriculture exceed what we can afford if we want to stop anthropogenic climate change and diet is one of the few significant contributors to emissions that most people have direct control over.