2/ Your decision to eat less meat can reduce food waste and affect production. Researchers have found that when consumers demand fewer hamburgers, fewer cows are raised. trib.al
3/ Adopting a plant-based diet can cut more emissions than making *all* of these changes:
• Installing solar panels on your home
• Switching to an electric vehicle (or public transit)
• Composting all of your food scraps
• Reducing your plastic use trib.al
4/ For what it’s worth, your effort to reduce your carbon footprint doesn't alter the fact that billions of people are living off fossil fuels. Changing corporate and federal policy is likely a more plausible path toward meaningfully reducing emissions. trib.al
5/ But individual action can push structural change. Perhaps most importantly, individual action should serve to complement efforts to change federal policies, not distract from them. Read more: trib.al