• magnetosphere @beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    Pedantry alert: most oil comes from algae and plankton. By “most”, I’m talking high 90 percent rather than 51 percent.

  • BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works
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    Oil is made from plants that died back when there was no bacteria to break down those plants once they died.

    We now have that bacteria, so we won’t ever have more oil.

  • underKap@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    i aggre with you if you’re talkin about mass capitalism version of veganism, but the original activist movement of veganism, which is more direct and utopic, is in fact against vehicles itself, cos the production of everything involved causes harm to animals environment.

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      Yeah, these days, many people become vegan to combat climate change and are opposed to fossil fuels even before that…

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        definitionally you aren’t vegan if environmental impact is your terminal goal. It would be like saying you’re Christian for the cathedrals or something.

        Veganism is a philosophy and life practice of trying to minimise harm to other earthlings. It can involve environmentalism as an instrumental goal, that is protecting the environment to avoid mass suffering, but a world of perfect environmental preservation where all ants have depression would be unacceptable to a vegan but not to an environmentalist.

        Many people with environmental goals adopt a plant based diet and/or lifestyle.