Weekday vegetarian?

The "save the planet" diet is basically this.

The big problem with the save the planet diet is that it encourages a bunch of (comparitively) wealthy Americans to give up hamburgers. Which will never happen.

The same group of scientists will likely prozelytize their ideas, and within a year or two, they spread and begin to incorporate all over the world, and they will be picked up by many people who are concerned about the environment. These concerns will be especially powerful in agrarian-based communities. So the recommendations that the "save the diet" planet makes, that the agrarian communities stop producing so many potatoes, will almost certainly take hold.

So, the diet comes down to: "Wealthy Americans, stop eating so much beef."

Wealthy americans completely ignore the imperative.

"Struggling African farmer who is slightly undernourished, stop growing your largely but not completely benign potatoes you entirely rely on"

En masse, farmers across africa start giving up potatoes. And the result is that LITERALLY no one in Africa is better off.

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