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[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

If my rice is gone I'll have to eat the rich. Running out of food sources if this nonsense keeps up.

[–] vagrancyand@sh.itjust.works 161 points 3 days ago (43 children)

To anyone wondering, no, rice is not hurting the climate. Unlike many water-intense crops, people are not trying to grow rice in the middle of the American desert.

[–] schmorpel@slrpnk.net 46 points 3 days ago (33 children)

...unless there's a profit to be made. Hype rice into the next superfood and watch people grow it in the desert.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 40 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 20 points 3 days ago

Preach. It's a far cry from almonds lol

I would love to see how this sort of online propaganda goes over in the East Asian part of the world. Or just Eastern part of the world in general.

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[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 105 points 3 days ago (9 children)

This but unironically.

Every environmental activist out there who spends their afternoons shaming people online for going about their most mundane, domestic activities ("how dare you use a hot cycle for your single load of laundry!?") are actively complicit in enabling and normalizing billionaires' continued ravaging of the earth's resources. It keeps everyone distracted from the actual problem and trapped in an "us vs them" mentality where the public can never collectively unite to turn the heat around on those in power.

I'm not cutting my decompression-after-surviving-another-day-in-dystopia shower short while Musk installs another infinity pool in his Arizona summer home lol, so stop asking.

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 38 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Ever since data centers have begun consuming staggering amounts of water and electricity while providing unprecedented amounts of pollution/toxic waste/noise/more, I've really given up feeling responsibility for making the world better/cleaner. I'm not going to change my behaviors--I'll still recycle and be careful about energy/water consumption, but the advent of the data center threw a similar "fuck you" as when i discovered how little the recycling of plastic bottles actually makes any impact (and that we were basically sold a glaring lie + promise by major bottlers like coke and pepsi)

"We won't be fooled again" 🥴

[–] BlackVenom@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

Plastic recycling is actually picking up as the economics make more sense.

But its still better to use/buy things in more recyclable containers...

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[–] plutopos@lemmy.zip 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Remember, the 'carbon footprint' metric was invented by British Petroleum's PR team.

[–] ElegantBiscuit@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 days ago

And while you're at it, remember that BP was formerly named the Anglo Persian Oil Company, which held a commercial monopoly on the oil extraction of Iran. It was majority owned by the british government and served to funnel the oil wealth back to London. When Iran's then democratically elected government wanted to nationalize the company, the UK and US fomented a coup in 1953 and installed a constitutional monarchy with a dictator Shah that would ally with the west. That's why they have F-4 tomcats, and fun fact, he was the one who commissioned mercedes to create the G-Wagon. Eventually resentment against the government would lead to the Iranian revolution in 1979 and the hostage crisis which would create the conditions that lead to today.

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[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 30 points 3 days ago (18 children)

Maybe, if you're only talking about individual people, but the big polluters are corporations, not people. That's where the focus should be.

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[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 51 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh, you like eating? That's destroying the climate you bozo. Meanwhile some billionaire is flying their private jet a town over to get a massage.

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[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 42 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Mama mama look, it's billionaire eco fascist propaganda. they don't care about the environment, they just want people to starve.

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[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 29 points 3 days ago (3 children)

This reminds me of he time I got arrested for peeing in the lake right next to the chemical company dumping waste in via a 26 inch Dia. Pipe.

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[–] ZMoney@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

There's actually a really interesting story here. Rice production, in addition to deforestation, has been linked to starting global warming about 5000 years ago. While the climate should have been naturally cooling due to decreased insolation, the methane released from the start of intensive rice agriculture and the CO2 from deforestation prevented this. Here's a summary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_anthropocene

P.S. fuck capitalists

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 11 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The article just says that it was due to the rise of agriculture, not rice in particular.

Edit: and fuck capitalists

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[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Your existence is an inconvenience... but the billionaires also need you! may be the new, corporate version of Original Sin™️, now powered by a.i.™️ on the blockchain!

[–] farmgineer@nord.pub 11 points 3 days ago

My bowl of rice comes from one prefecture over. I'd buy more locally if I could, but I prefer brown rice to white and they locally polish basically everything.

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

No rice, no meat, no tree nuts, only some vegetables. Environmentalist austerity politics really keep the movement down.

[–] DimFisher@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Because it's all a lie, nothing to fix there, it's their way to impose more surveillance on people, it's always about surveillance and control

[–] minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Until those most capable of reducing their footprint, actually do it, I'm not doing shit. This isn't my problem to fix and I didn't cause it and I'm not sacrificing anything else to fix the rich man's problems. I ain't fighting his wars, I ain't fixing his mistakes, I ain't sacrificing for his future. The rich have more than enough to fix this shit. If they don't then maybe our species isn't meant to survive given we keep producing leaders like them.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

I put my recycling in the regular trash in solidarity with you!

[–] VaalaVasaVarde@sopuli.xyz 23 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Rice is bad for the environment, but you can scarf down that two pound grass fed steak without worrying. /S

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago

Always trying to blame the common person.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Am just gonna stick to blaming LLM hosting data centers for hurting the environment.

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