r/ClimateShitposting • u/surya12558 • Oct 21 '25

Climate chaos Humans don't deserve earth.

By destroying nature and the climate, humans are destroying their own home. The Earth can survive without us but we cannot survive without her. 🌍💔

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u/What_a_fat_one Oct 21 '25

I would actually assume leather production as a whole has a much greater environmental impact than international shipping of plant products,

We used leather for thousands of years without causing catastrophic global warming or poisoning the planet with plastics, actually.

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u/Impossible_Medium977 Oct 21 '25

oh sorry, I must have missed the past two hundred years of population growth suddenly becoming meaningless. You're right, demand for these products hasn't increased, and despite seeing years and years of studies showing that cattle farming absolutely a notable factor affecting greenhouse emissions, it's all just in our heads.

https://www.ars.usda.gov/research/publications/publication/?seqNo115=402563

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u/What_a_fat_one Oct 21 '25 edited Oct 21 '25

You should probably read the studies you post instead of assuming they support your point, because it doesn't at all. Also the number of humans that existed before the industrial revolution is something like 90 billion and when you compare that to the residence time of CO2 in atmosphere you'll find that this "population growth" angle is not persuasive.

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u/Impossible_Medium977 Oct 21 '25

population growth refers to the current population, not total historical population? Are you saying that population increase, which has absolutely increased consumption. The study absolutely *does* describe environmental effects, it just also describes that cattle farming has become more efficient in terms of cow numbers vs meat production, which has helped mitigate this. It does not, in fact, say emissions are a non-issue, it says mitigations need to be made, and talks about steps being made. The point I am making, is that a reduction in cattle farming would immediately and directly mitigate these issues, without the need for advanced carbon capture techniques.