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The planet's average temperature hit 17.23 degrees Celsius on Thursday, surpassing the 17.18C record set on Tuesday and equalled on Wednesday.

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[-] electriccars@lemmy.world 139 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I used to worry about this a lot, I still do but I used to too.

Joking aside, it's a shit show that us plebians can't really do anything about but I still try. I've driven a hybrid for the last 6 years, I have a smart thermostat to try to save energy, I try to eat less meat more often. I recycle a lot more than most. I even make my own bread and nut milks and many other things which is not only cheaper and healthier (and WAY more delicious) but requires less transport related greenhouse gas emissions than buying premade breads and nut milks. Nut milk is especially better than dairy milk in that matter.

Oh yeah! And yesterday I picked up 10 large trash bags of litter: yesterday picked up 10 large kitchen trash bags

[-] SuperRyn@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

btw note that the carbon footprint of one person's lifetime is equiv to 1 second of worldwide factory emissions (source: kurzgesagt), so it's not a necessity to do some of the things you're doing, but i would recommend that everyone in the world do some farming, even if it's a small garden of radishes or smth, or tomatoes on a windowsill

also this is only tangentially related, but i still drink cow milk, because: -A it tastes good

-B I am allergic to all nut milks

-C soy milk sounds like crap, soy is already in basically everything (rip the few people who are allergic to it), so i wouldn't want to consume more of it

[-] threeduck@aussie.zone 14 points 1 year ago

A: if we know cow milk is bad for the planet and bad for the animal, and we use "but I prefer it!" as an excuse, couldn't we apply that to everything? Sexual assault? "It feels good!". Theft? "I like having stuff!"

B: (in order of ease and taste) Oat milk, rice milk, flax milk, hemp milk

C: Soy milk... "sounds like crap"? We might be at the end of carnivore arguments. You know cow milk literally has faeces in it, right? The fact "soy is in everything" being used to not have it is also not logical. Water is in everything.

[-] roze_sha@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No it does not.

It’s like saying municipal water has shit in it if it is treated water. Yeah it did once…. That’s why we have filtering and sterilizing technologies.

If milk had cow shit in it people would constantly be getting sick from it it.

That said, dairy farming is pretty horrific in many ways. It’s good to cut down on dairy consumption as much as is tolerable for each person.

[-] shottymcb@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

It’s like saying municipal water has shit in it if it is treated water.

Water? Awful stuff, don't drink it. Fish fuck in it.

[-] SuperRyn@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The poop in cow milk is referring to the bacteria in unpasteurized milk if I'm interpreting it correctly (or it could be waste from cells in the cow's blood, since cow milk starts out as cow blood iirc)

[-] Aux@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It doesn't. Unless you live in US. US food is full of shit no matter what you eat, lol.

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