Re: [DIYbio] Climate change solutions?

On 12/2/18, Dakota Hamill <dkotes@gmail.com> wrote:

> Nothing will change a person's behavior more quickly than making it a money
> based decision.
>

Thats absolutely right. Bizarrely the current main argument against
veganism and climate change is to argue that existing workers in the
CO2-heavy industries will lose their jobs, which is a hollow argument
in an open economy. "But cattle ranchers will be put out of work" is
a poor defense in comparison to global implications, especially since
cattle ranchers can migrate to a new industry. The paper I cited has
a reader retort that the paper's conclusions are not implementable
because 'people in arid climates can't grow vegetables and are reliant
on farm animals'.. that's incredibly misinformed.

Which, to Tito's point of looking for technology solutions, if the
above represents the main argument from the opposition, then there are
technology solutions which can be developed for that concern. People
do change behavior based on their wallets and based on witnessing more
successful peer competitors. If the cattle ranchers see neighbors who
are making more money in less time and less effort by growing plants
(or whatever), then they will change both their businesses and their
lifestyles within years. Find the main opponents to climate control
and present the economically better solution. The prior movers in
veganism marketed the lifestyle as an luxury product (Whole Foods,
fake organics, etc) to maintain and increase their profit margins and
so the public perception is that it is more expensive to be vegan,
however in real terms, legumes, roots etc. are the cheapest source of
nutrition, much cheaper than buying dead animals. Especially when
considering meat eating-related medical costs. (Which is back to the
cookbook idea. In fact, the most frequent basic first question about
veganism is, "But what do you cook, how do you do it?")

The difficulty in implementation is in competing with lopsided
governmental policies which subsidize, rewarding, bad industries and
bad producers, at the expense of better ones. Which is why more
biologists and scientists should go into government ASAP.

Long ago I cited a couple papers related to insects as superior
dietary protein sources (especially if compared to CO2-producing
animals). Such papers are rare yet cyclical. The first large barrier
is social, it's psychological. The easier barrier is technological.
I'm sure if farm-raised crickets were developed into a somewhat tasty
protein powder, with the protein profile clearly compared to and
stomping the existing and quite expensive specialty products, the
nutty Paleo Crossfit crowd and such would adopt it rapidly and shift
entire parts of society with it, in a short amount of time.


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