ondoyant, (edited )
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that’s absolutely conspiratorial thinking. cultured meat has not been economically viable until very recently, and still isn’t that widespread in application. electric “vehicles” are not electric planes, and while electric planes are a viable technology, its still not a scalable solution. electric cars are also not going to pull us out of this mess, because cars as a transportation tech are like, one of the least efficient ways to move people around in high density population centers.

the reality is, the majority of the emissions created by the rich are for things that people use, eat, or require, and using less or different resources is something we need to do to address this crisis. most of the world doesn’t have access to commercial planes and meat for every meal, the only reason we can eat as much as we do is because meat production is a massively subsidized industry, and we need to spend the money we’re spending on that on more sustainable ways of living instead. if cultured meat is part of that? good! but in the world as it currently exists, relying on animal agriculture to provide our food is profoundly inefficient, environmentally disastrous, and unnecessary.

genuinely, if we all lived in a world where the workers owned the means of production and just went on living the lifestyle we currently have? we would still be fucked, because the scale at which we manufacture, transport, and process resources is unsustainable. changes to how we live are going to be necessary, even if we stopped spewing carbon into the atmosphere tomorrow. the climate has changed, biodiversity has been irrevocably lost, and if we don’t adapt ourselves to what our environment can handle, then lots people will die.

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