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| Topic | Fighting climate change: are people unwilling or uneducated? |
| Dikitain 09/17/21 4:48:17 PM #23: | Clench281 posted... How, for example, would one expect beef consumption to decrease without actions from individuals? Produce better alternatives. Look at smoking as an example, decades upon decades of telling people cigarettes are bad, telling people to stop, creating laws making it harder for people to get them, etc. In the end, what has been the biggest thing to reduce cigarette smoking? Vape. All it took was producing something better that people didn't know they wanted and in a few short years you almost never hear about cigarettes anymore. You are not going to convince people to stop driving, so you produce electric cars that are easier to maintain and better for the environment (although getting the cost down would help a ton in getting more people to adopt them). You are not going to convince people to stop using electricity so you make electricity from cleaner sources like wind, solar, and hydroelectric. You are not going to convince people to stop eating beef so make beef artificial beef that is cheaper and has less of a carbon footprint (and very close to the original). That is how you can solve the issue, don't change the individual, change the demand. --- After 16 years, I have decided my signature will NOT be about my job! But I still don't know what to put here so...yea... ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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