inari@piefed.zip to Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · edit-220 days agoBeef production drives 40% of agriculture-linked forest destruction, Brazil leadswww.reuters.comexternal-linkmessage-square12linkfedilinkarrow-up189arrow-down10
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minus-squareCapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·20 days agoThose who trade forest for steak will eventually have neither forests nor steaks.
minus-squarerbn@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·19 days agoUnfortunately, it won’t be them in most cases. It will be future generations and people in poorer countries that suffer first and the hardest.
minus-squarefallaciousBasis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·19 days agoLet the future generations eat cake! Heh. Happy cake day!
minus-squareCapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·19 days agoHave you seen the price of beef? The future is now! ;)
minus-squarerbn@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-219 days agoI haven’t, but I’m more than happy if the market proofs me wrong. IMO the price can’t be high enough if that’s what it takes to reduce the demand.
minus-squareCapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·19 days agoThe demand is insatiable, and unmet. Price based demand destruction is only part what were seeing here. Whatever can be made will be sold. We can’t supply enough to meet demand so we ration by price. It’s not the victory you probably hope for.
minus-squarenodiratime@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·19 days agoOnly the oldest people alive today are “save” from the brunt of the climate fallout. Anyone else: Brace yourselves.
Those who trade forest for steak will eventually have neither forests nor steaks.
Unfortunately, it won’t be them in most cases. It will be future generations and people in poorer countries that suffer first and the hardest.
Let the future generations eat cake! Heh. Happy cake day!
Have you seen the price of beef? The future is now! ;)
I haven’t, but I’m more than happy if the market proofs me wrong. IMO the price can’t be high enough if that’s what it takes to reduce the demand.
The demand is insatiable, and unmet. Price based demand destruction is only part what were seeing here. Whatever can be made will be sold. We can’t supply enough to meet demand so we ration by price.
It’s not the victory you probably hope for.
Only the oldest people alive today are “save” from the brunt of the climate fallout. Anyone else: Brace yourselves.