You can't save the climate by going vegan. Corporate polluters must be held accountable. Many individual actions to slow climate change are worth taking. But they distract from the systemic changes that are needed to avert this crisis, in order to save our future.

True vegans are a very small percent of US population ( under 1%?) versus vegetarians who are 5% of US (12% of US Millennials!) and almost 22% globally. I think that most vegans are animal rights activists first and environmentalists second. The notion that vastly reducing animal consumption and pollution and water use through the much more realistic feasible option of a vegetarian diet is dismissed as not acceptable because zero is the only okay amount. Ideologies always fail when they dont take reality into account. 8 Billion people consuming 90% less is better than 80 million consuming none. Extremists often cant see that logic because their views are not based on reality, that is balanced evidence. Vegans are right about animal cruelty but they haven't figured out how to get 99% of us omniverous apes to go full herbivore. I dont think it's possible in this very flawed world but maybe in time they'll prove me wrong.

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