We Don’t Have to Stop Eating Meat to Stop Climate Change
Real solutions to climate change are delightfully boring
During an “Ask Me Anything” on my soon-to-be-retired Instagram, one fellow asked for:
“Resources to counter the ‘cows are causing climate change no matter how you raise them’ argument”
There was a time not long ago where I’d have jumped headlong into a point-by-point debate with anyone suggesting that cattle are “causing” climate change… but those arguments just result in a hostile stalemate between two people whose minds are already made up and, ultimately, a bunch of wasted time.
If I absolutely HAD to engage, however (say this debate came up during a speaking engagement), I’d take a page from this really interesting discussion that Neil DeGrasse Tyson had with Ben Shapiro about the LGBT community (go to 42:25 for that part of the discussion):
In this discussion, Ben Shapiro attempts to frame trans rights as a debate around the “scientific validity” of the gender spectrum (is it biological…
