• Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social
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    18 days ago

    Same is true for Flying:

    “Sure Flying burns huge amounts of fuel, releases greenhouse gases high in the atmosphere, and contributes to the climate damage, but my holidays and travel time is more important”

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        18 days ago

        And calling out some hypocrisies.

        Most people are only willing to make sacrifices for animals/the-environment as long as it suites their lifestyle.

        OMG I’ll never eat fish that’s murder. 😡

        12h+ flight flight to go on holiday 🥺👉👈 Whoopsie

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          18 days ago

          I’m not vegan or vegeterian. But I feel like that “unless you are doing both” is kinda a wrong argument to make, even almost bad faith.

          Because i could say “ah so you are anti work abuse? Curious, you are using a phone made by leveraging abuse”

          I think a more honest argument would be to weight the possibilities and the outcomes.

          Producing meat does increase the carbon footprint, and the same can be said for flying.

          The idea is, how much can beign vegan reduce this footprint, and how much removing unnecessary flights can save? So overall, how much i am saving doing one of those, instead of both?

          Also, eating is an everyday activity, flying usually isn’t (in the example you reported)

          I have no answers, i just didn’t like the argument