The reason I say it’s whataboutism, is because both need to be fixed unrelated to one another.
We need to get the upper class to stop being awful and we also need to get eating habits that are long term sustainable for an ever growing population with a shrinking supply of fresh water, which farming requires a massive share of.
I completely agree on that, and while I’m obviously being a bit snarky, the best pressure we could put on rich people and industries would be to frame this as “we’re sacrificing so THEY can live large”.
So a “hamburger index” isn’t necessarily out of order.
It’s not “whataboutism” to frame the scale of each contributing aspect of addressing climate change.
Cutting a single rich person’s private jet flights by a flight a month will continue a LOT more than me cutting my remaining dozen cheeseburgers a year. I’m down to do that if the rich person also is willing to cut those flights though.
If “people are sacrificing their lives so I can be rich” would even remotely affect any one of their actions, we wouldnt be here discussing this. Sadly.
The reason I say it’s whataboutism, is because both need to be fixed unrelated to one another.
We need to get the upper class to stop being awful and we also need to get eating habits that are long term sustainable for an ever growing population with a shrinking supply of fresh water, which farming requires a massive share of.
I completely agree on that, and while I’m obviously being a bit snarky, the best pressure we could put on rich people and industries would be to frame this as “we’re sacrificing so THEY can live large”. So a “hamburger index” isn’t necessarily out of order.
It’s not “whataboutism” to frame the scale of each contributing aspect of addressing climate change. Cutting a single rich person’s private jet flights by a flight a month will continue a LOT more than me cutting my remaining dozen cheeseburgers a year. I’m down to do that if the rich person also is willing to cut those flights though.
If “people are sacrificing their lives so I can be rich” would even remotely affect any one of their actions, we wouldnt be here discussing this. Sadly.