Well, and even the "go vegan" ones are like... I have seen a lot of controversy over that data, and would really like to see a good explanation of it. How TF is it going to be less carbon footprint for me to eat non-animal alternatives they gotta import from somewhere far [because we have Winter here and shit doesn't grow here during Winter!] than for me to eat the animals my sister raises as part of the crop rotations on her farm??? like, I get eschewing factory meat farming, one thousand percent, but i absolutely cannot do the math on how forgoing most local cuisine and switching to plastic clothing is going to do anything positive for my footprint. [Especially when I just got done touring the fiber mill whose entire business model is buying the fleeces from meat sheep that otherwise would be a waste product and turning them into thread and yarn that can then be made into clothing? and those sheep are so often being used to reclaim fallow farmland that otherwise would go to McMansions with ChemLawns that get repo'd by the bank in seven years and then sit vacant, and by having the dual revenue stream of wool and meat the farmer can afford the mortgage and can outcompete the developers? i mean? how is a plastic shirt imported from Singapore going to help my local area more than that?????] [and all of this will vary by one's local area, naturally, and even though you and I live near one another there's an international border in the way which certainly has a huge effect. being in a large city, you'd have to eat imported food anyway, so all of your calculations are going to start in an entirely different place-- and i've driven past the fields of greenhouses; Toronto's foodshed is very, very different from Buffalo's, and from the area around my sister's farm where I spend so much time.]
[for REAL, you can see eight vacant McMansions from my sister's highest pasture, all of them bank foreclosures, and instead of selling those, the developers are looking for new plots of land to build new ones. A new one just went up right next to their lowest field, BIL had to go over and gently remove the new owners from his land where they were busily making a driveway. Not yours, guys, I need that access for my tractor, you live over there. Thanks. Great. Oh your house is gonna be one of those with the double garage as the whole facade, that's classy, I dig it. Enjoy that. Guess I won't pasture my chickens directly next to you, like I did last year, you'd probably get upset.]
But absolutely primary, obviously, is not buying new shit, and we're so conditioned by literal generations of consumer culture and advertising that the automatic assumption for anything in the entire world that we want to happen is to buy something to do it with. It's insane! And yeah-- even if you can compost a paper bag, how much water did the mill pollute to make that paper bag?? you already *have* the plastic, that is a carbon footprint of zero.
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[and all of this will vary by one's local area, naturally, and even though you and I live near one another there's an international border in the way which certainly has a huge effect. being in a large city, you'd have to eat imported food anyway, so all of your calculations are going to start in an entirely different place-- and i've driven past the fields of greenhouses; Toronto's foodshed is very, very different from Buffalo's, and from the area around my sister's farm where I spend so much time.]
[for REAL, you can see eight vacant McMansions from my sister's highest pasture, all of them bank foreclosures, and instead of selling those, the developers are looking for new plots of land to build new ones. A new one just went up right next to their lowest field, BIL had to go over and gently remove the new owners from his land where they were busily making a driveway. Not yours, guys, I need that access for my tractor, you live over there. Thanks. Great. Oh your house is gonna be one of those with the double garage as the whole facade, that's classy, I dig it. Enjoy that. Guess I won't pasture my chickens directly next to you, like I did last year, you'd probably get upset.]
But absolutely primary, obviously, is not buying new shit, and we're so conditioned by literal generations of consumer culture and advertising that the automatic assumption for anything in the entire world that we want to happen is to buy something to do it with. It's insane!
And yeah-- even if you can compost a paper bag, how much water did the mill pollute to make that paper bag?? you already *have* the plastic, that is a carbon footprint of zero.