Nearly 50 per cent of Canadians say they can’t afford meat
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It should be "Nearly 50 per cent of Canadians say they can’t afford meat the way the used to"
From the article: "nearly 50 per cent said they’d bought fewer meat products in the previous six months"
Noticed it getting warmer lately? Droughts? Fires? Deaths from heat waves? Relevant: "Meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from food production" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/13/meat-greenhouses-gases-food-production-study
How does the article or perhaps yourself consider a “greenhouse” gas? Methane? Co2?
"Greenhouse effect is produced by greenhouse gasses (GHG) like water vapor, carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxides (NxO) and ozone (O3)."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5837998/
Ok well since water vapour is the main greenhouse gas/effect.
Ok fine. The greenhouse effect is an important part of keeping the earth habitable. Greenhouse gas in and of itself is neither good nor bad. It’s just a natural phenomenon.
Wether there’s “too much” or “too little” of it is the issue, too much, and you get a warmer earth. Too little and earth is colder. Ok so: what’s so bad about a warmer earth? Geological history shows us past very warm periods happened with abundant life nothing terrible was a result. What’s so bad about a colder earth? Well we all know how that turned out. Ice ages.
Mostly the people who have died and will die from the storms, fires, heat waves, floods, droughts, starvation from crop failures...
Don't take my word for it. Do your own research.
No I’m not saying that water vapour is bad, it’s the main ‘greenhouse gas’. But also that the greenhouse effect isn’t a bad thing. We need water vapour and an even higher co2 level. As you say, co2 is an amazing gas of life! More co2 please!
If you honestly believe that CO2 in the atmosphere is not contributing to climate change then we might be too far apart to have a conversation. But I'm curious: is any attempt made to prevent the CO2 you're talking about being released into the atmosphere?