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βHydrogen is the Futureβ - sponsored by Shell
After years of denialism and fucking up our planet these cunts want to sell us the solution to the problem they caused so that we stay dependent on their supply chain and pipelines.
Not only this, Hβ is also a green gas, and we can't afford the leaks of Hβ due to the used as an energy supply.
The one case I have seen for hydrogen, that might be useful, is that when things like solar energy generation, create and overload of power, it can be used to create hydrogen, then the hydrogen can be stored, and used for a variety of ways to power things, in a largely eco-friendly, way. Otherwise... yeah.
Losses stack up for hydrogen. It's kinda of a bad battery and storage is dangerous. Fuel cells are bulky and fragile.
Right now, it's relatively viable because we get it as a petrolium byproduct. But that version doesn't burn very clean.
Once we're using solar at home, it's green, but you're chewing through freshwater which isn't ideal.
Something like sodium ion batteries would be better is most ways. (Other than refilling cars in a gas station)
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we're approximately three inches right of fuck
I zoomed in the image as much as I could so 3 inches to the right is not that bad. I'm glad I could pull my weight to save the climate.
Veganism would be the biggest boycott to combat climate change while still allowing workers to still go to work.
Let's get rid of fossil fuels and eat more plants?
The first part is a harder structural issue. The second is an action everyone can take now and have a greater impact towards sustaining the planet. With the side benefits of better health and less animal suffering.
If veganism was welded as a solidarity against capitalism greater market structures would be forced to bend to working class demands.
Speak for yourself, my bike has become my primary means of transportation and I'm saving up for a solar array for my house. That change can and should happen now on every level.
Speaking of structural issues: There are massive, pervasive systems in place both practically and politically surrounding the meat industry. They even get huge tax funded subsidies from the government! Using your logic, should people just give up because of it? What's the difference?
Veganism and vegetarianism are a hard sell to many people too, encouraging people to eat more plants instead of chastising them for eating meat would probably be more effective in convincing them.
Your comment even leaves out one of the most persuasive reasons the public, at large, are hard to sway to eat less, let alone no, animal products. Our bodies are wired to have strong responses to things like the smell of cooking meat. The way grease affects the tastes of food, etc. Our bodies have long recognized indicators of edible things, that are calorie dense, as that was critical to survival for most of human existence.
Yep, cooked meat was a game changer for our species but now it's become a health and environmental hazard because we eat so much of it.
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Literally any time I bring up veganism and climate change, I have ten people jumping my neck screaming "but the corporations!". Like, it's so easy to eat vegan and it's cheaper. I don't get people
So the thing people miss about this one is people who live out of the reduced/sale section. While at full price a vegan diet is cheaper (though requires a bit more prep time, not much more though microwave steamers are a miracle) Meat is much more calorie dense and can end up being as much as 80-90% off just before it turns, vegetables on the other hand never go on sale. In this circumstance meat is cheaper.
More regionally some of the foods in a vegan diet that make up for protein can be more expensive than you might be used to. Sure beans are universally cheap and there's some nice varieties (I like kidney and butter beans a lot) but chickpeas, nuts and really all of the non-bean alternatives are actually pretty expensive in some places (e.g. where I live).
That said I admit to being one of these people who could maybe drop meat (I only get it when its on sale/reduction at this point) but couldn't live without cheese and eggs. iirc chickens are the lowest carbon livestock but I await a good cheese alternative or non-dairy cheese.
The time you use prepping meat could easily be applied to prepping a vegan alternative.
I feel like the twitter post addresses the last issue.
I'm not sure what the situation is like wherever you live, but these past recent years there's been a lot of progress made when it comes to vegan cheeses and egg substitutes. The cheese I'm getting is also quite affordable at Lidl (1,20β¬ maybe for 150g), eggs can be substituted with tofu or egg mix you just mix with water and spices, though I don't remember how much those cost.
Also strange, I would have expected chickpeas to cost next to nothing anywhere, really. A 265g can (400g including water) costs like 70 cents maybe
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thing is that you're completely ignoring how culturally important meat is to a lot of people, and how much easier it is to cook a very tasty and nutritious meal with meat.
sure, rice and beans is cheaper, but you need to eat other things too and to most people "rice and beans" sounds like abject misery.
You can't just say "go vegan" as if that's just a switch you flip, the easy vegan alternatives are expensive and the cheap ones aren't easy.
If you want people to go vegan, start producing cheap and easy vegan food that is indistinguishable from non-vegan stuff, we have a small amount of such products here and it's helped me eat less meat.
Even if you are right that going 100% vegan is difficult for most people, going 95% vegan is not, and the impact on the climate would be nearly the same.
Not to mention it's only barely more sustainable than Breatharianism unless you're taking a ton of supplements.
I've been a vegan for 18 years. I'm a little chubby because I can't afford the gym lately but I haven't taken supplements in 10+ years. Between cultured vegan yogurt, nutritional yeast, and seaweed it's not really necessary anymore.
You literally do not need vegan meat substitutes. And if you do want or need them, there are plenty alternatives that cost pretty much the same. I can only speak for Germany, but eating meat would be plenty more expensive. Not even touching on vegetables that are super cheap compared to meat, and are way more nutritious, and don't clog up your arteries
congratulations on literally just ignoring what i wrote and instead just preaching about your own superiority!
Give up cheese... Or die...
Sometimes sacrifices must be made. It is a shame though, this planet is pretty.
After even 100+ hours in no mans sky. Earth is the most beautiful planet I've ever been to.
Before that: 80 years of "things are definitely going to heat up"
my right or fuck's right ?
βThe poor peons will die before they ever do anything about it, we already control the media & make it all their fault - straws, recycling β & our bunkers will keep us cool while they all boil alive. It doesnβt matter. Theyβre not profitable. Mankind was mean to profit.β
If entrenched capital hasn't moved off of oil by now they're just asking to get their lunch eaten by the green push. Can we move off the doomsday juice already? Nothing but laggards and bored investors hanging on at this point
FTFY:
Doing God's work
Let's all remember that jury nullification exists, even if being on jury duty kind of sucks.
Currently we're in the "It's real, but it's not the end of the world" phase of their arguments.