No, it’s not. And converting a majority of the meat-eating world’s population to veganism is a wildly impractical, if not entirely impossible feat that at best would take several generations to settle in hearts and minds, and decades more for us to see a shift in industrial practices. Even then, you’re fighting incredibly entrenched market and political forces for a “solution” that will not even address the full scope of the crisis. Given the haste with which we need to approach the climate crisis, we can’t afford to pin our hopes on everyone going vegan out of the goodness of their hearts, and laws mandating significant dietary changes (at a scale and severity somewhat larger than capping the size of sodas…) would be un-passable and in the case of the US (rolling the dice and saying the US is likely the chief global offender for consumption of animal products), likely unconstitutional.
You laid out the odds stacked against sustainability. But that's not an indictment against veganism.
I'm under no delusion that everyone will go vegan tomorrow, just as much as I don't expect everyone to stop driving cars to work tomorrow.
Even half-assed is better than no-assed, but at the end of the road, society will be vegan or very near vegan, or people will suffer a living hell.
And again, vegan isn't the complete solution. There are a lot of moving parts, any one of which stands to collectively fuck us. We could all be vegan, and still pave over the world and turn the Earth into a massive hothouse the likes of which haven't been seen for millions of years.
That’s not right, it’s just true. And we need to consider practicality and human behavior if were actually going to save the planet. If you don’t see that, you aren’t seeing the Achilles heel of so many well-intentioned movements - there is a human element that is impractical and often imbecilic, but that needs to be considered when attempting fast, systemic change.
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u/OpheliaJade2382 Jan 01 '24
Veganism isn’t the only solution to this problem