When I was in elementary school, the cafeteria switched to disposable plastic trays because the paper ones hurt trees. Stupid, I know… but are today’s initiatives any better?

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    1 year ago

    How is reducing farmland from 4 to 1 billion hectares zero impact?

    Animal agriculture is incredible inefficient and wasteful.

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      1 year ago

      How is reducing farmland from 4 to 1 billion hectares zero impact?

      In the context of our discussion, it has minimal impact on climate change. The scope of harm is really limited to deforestation, but this has minimal impact on CO2 emissions as a proportion of all other output.