• Penny7@lemmy.ca
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      12 days ago

      Considering this is about food that humans eat it makes sense that they don’t include children on this chart.

      Unless you’re living in a candy house in the middle of the woods, then yeah, you have a point.

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        12 days ago

        Oh ho, I see, I didn’t realize children aren’t human and they don’t eat. My bad.

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        12 days ago

        The title mentions not owning a car and voting, that’s not in the chart either.

        You can drive 12 hummers powered by crude oil and eat steak every day at not have even a fraction of the impact of just one child. Having one less child results in a ecological-footprint reduction equivalent to 58.6 tonnes of CO2 a year. By contrast, living car-free saves 2.4 tonnes a year, eating a plant-based diet saves 0.82 tonnes a year.

        Not reproducing is the single most impactful thing you can do for the environment by a huge margin.

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          Not reproducing is the single most impactful thing you can do for the environment by a huge margin.

          Can you compare that with large container ships, commercial and private planes, coal plants…?

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        12 days ago

        Well the post tile says “other than not having a car and voting” which are also not about food.

        I get the linked article is about food, but OP worded the post in such a way that it’s just factually incorrect

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      12 days ago

      It’s horrible advice though if you wish your woldview to pass onto the next generations. Statistically, the people not caring so much about things like climate change are having kids.

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      12 days ago

      Well the actual best thing you can do is kill as many people as you can and then yourself.

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        12 days ago

        Watched the news in say, the last three years? The end of growth means people revert to type: impulsive, savage animals killing each other over tribal allegiances and god myths. I don’t need to do a thing.