▲ 468 ▼ Eating Meat Is Bad for Climate Change, and Here Are All the Studies That Prove It (sentientmedia.org) submitted 2 years ago by veganpizza69@lemmy.world to c/climate@slrpnk.net 400 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.world [S] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) mhm, and you won't be screaming "cost of living crisis", right? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 2 years ago No, but it should be applied to everything, not just the weekly boogeyman industry. All those out of season fruits and vegetables that get transported from southern Spain or Israel. All that plastic tat imported from China on a dirty old boat. Everything. Hell, put it on the price tags so people know exactly how much of that price is down to climate tax. Cry poverty? Increase the minimum wages then. Somebody has to pay, and it has to be the ones doing the consuming. Us. We won't choose the cleaner option unless it's cheaper, so make the dirty stuff cost more. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 2 years ago No, but it should be applied to everything, not just the weekly boogeyman industry. All those out of season fruits and vegetables that get transported from southern Spain or Israel. All that plastic tat imported from China on a dirty old boat. Everything. Hell, put it on the price tags so people know exactly how much of that price is down to climate tax. Cry poverty? Increase the minimum wages then. Somebody has to pay, and it has to be the ones doing the consuming. Us. We won't choose the cleaner option unless it's cheaper, so make the dirty stuff cost more. permalink fedilink source parent