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In reply to the discussion: Do you enjoy beef? You're directly contributing to climate change. Beef is the new SUV. [View all]Meldread
(4,213 posts)...it is even the smallest suggestion that people need to modify their lifestyles is met with huge resistance. All that was said was maybe we should cut down on our beef consumption--it's not even a call to go vegan! Just to cut back. Obviously, other countries do just fine without consuming as much beef and dairy products. Yet, you see the reaction.
It's such a small thing to ask. Look at the reaction.
You literally have a situation where we have people who believe that climate change is real, and you tell them something they can do--a small change--and they decide it is worthy of ridicule or even grow resentful. This is how you know we've lost. We can't even get the people who agree that climate change is real to make changes to their lifestyles. If we can't do that for the people who actually believe climate change is real and a problem, how and the hell are we going to do it for those who don't believe it is real?
It is easy for them to attack coal and oil companies, but what they refuse to acknowledge is that they are the ones who are generating the demand for what they are supplying--they are the consumers. We, as individuals, lack the power to change the government, and the only power we have as individuals is to modify our own behavior. As we see here, people are unwilling to even consider that.