I’m almost exclusively vegetarian. I am so by choice but after reading this article I wanted to dig a little deeper about the interrelationship with climate. TL;DR: it is much more complicated than you think (or I thought before Alina Goh pulled together a bunch of research).
Read MoreThird and last in my series of “factoid” posts about climate denial.
Read MoreI am going to dribble out “factoid” posts about climate denial. These are not intended for actual climate deniers. As I’ve written elsewhere, droning on about the data is not going to make a difference. It is for people I think of as “climate-aware” — to provide useful Information that might clarify things in your own mind.
Read MoreThe structure of modern life, from the conveniences in the First World to the massive poverty alleviation that has taken place in the Third World, is dependent on energy consumption. Nobody is going to sign up for being back in the Stone Age, foraging for berries and communicating by smoke signal. And yet: there are simple things we can all do to “do our bit” without feeling like we’ve taken a hatchet to that which makes life worth living.
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