Awww… Simpler times…
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Oh for sure. 👍 The scale of that would be huge. It was like when Obama asked Americans to get oil changes and tune ups. The media acted like that was silly to ask, but that would have made a noticeable impact. I’m not disputing scale, but I doubt you’ll get folks to cut back on beef so long as they see the wealthy aren’t sacrificing anything. “Why should i give up MY creator comforts when ONE FLIGHT from a billionaire will undo all my sacrifices for a whole year?” We need some HUGE wealth taxes on the ultra-luxury gear that pollutes the most. THEN I think we can put more pressure on people to cut back on the small luxuries.
Hold on… Lemme pull out the manual so I can turn to the listed page and enter in the code on that page so I can play the game…
I completely agree on that, and while I’m obviously being a bit snarky, the best pressure we could put on rich people and industries would be to frame this as “we’re sacrificing so THEY can live large”. So a “hamburger index” isn’t necessarily out of order.
It’s not “whataboutism” to frame the scale of each contributing aspect of addressing climate change. Cutting a single rich person’s private jet flights by a flight a month will continue a LOT more than me cutting my remaining dozen cheeseburgers a year. I’m down to do that if the rich person also is willing to cut those flights though.
Sure, but maybe we could start quantifying the scale of flights to COP28 in terms of hamburgers consumed? I’m tired of the burden to correct for industrial sized pollution being placed on the backs of consumers. Yes. My eating almost no beef over the course of a year helps. I can cut out the 10-12 cheeseburgers I eat. Will my 12 cheeseburgers a year balance a single analyst flight to COP28?
That takes me back. I remember when we got Tetris on a copied floppy…
“Eat less meat people! Now if you’ll excuse me, I have conferences all over the world this week, and I have to get to my private jet…”
I’m back to a full computer again too, and if you don’t have a laptop handy, the new little mini PCs are surprisingly affordable too. If you don’t want to build a raspberry pi.
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I mean, Ive been begging for a new media and gaming mode since the failed Windows XP Media Center Edition.