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Cake day: July 1st, 2023
  • philm@programming.devtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Shout out to the oil, meat, and shipping industriesEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Certainly, it will be really “interesting” how to produce food for ~10 billion people in this uncertain future. But if we finally learn to accept that e.g. cattle isn’t the way forward, I think it may be possible with plant-based food. Although something like vertical farming etc. is definitely not viable today, it may be in the future. And at least currently it’s totally possible to sustainably produce enough (plant-based) food. I think we’ll learn to adapt, that much I trust in agricultural-technological advancement etc. But it will be “meaty” for most people and conflicts will arise (as they already are, see e.g. the conflict in Sudan that is indirectly related to climate change already, similarly as Syria previously (there were quite a few droughts the years before))

  • philm@programming.devtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Shout out to the oil, meat, and shipping industriesEnglish
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    1 year ago

    For whom though? I think if your product is going to be very expensive because of that you,ll try to find ways (less carbon emissive) to make it cheaper, and for others, who have low emissions already, they get an advantage. Also rich people generally emit much more carbon than poor people.

    I’m a little bit tired of the argument, that everything gets expensive, like the money just goes to nirvana, it’s a tax and a tax should steer industries (mostly) to do the right thing (in this case emit less CO2). The money can go directly to people e.g. in the form of a universal basic income.

  • philm@programming.devtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Shout out to the oil, meat, and shipping industriesEnglish
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    1 year ago

    They emit a lot, but they transport … a very lot. Trucks are higher emitters per comodity.

    Still both should be powered by something else like hydrogen (more interesting for ships I guess) or batteries…

    And cruise ships should be IMHO taxed so high (the tax should probably directly go to countermeasures), such that only very rich people are able to (not that I grant them the fun, but they should finance this climate disaster in every possible way…)